ISSUE Members are invited to "Check in" this March. Ying Liu is a Brooklyn-based hodgepodge-ist whose work hybridizes theater, dance, video, and performance art with DIY props and an exuberant sense of play by employing consumer technology such as VR, GoPro and GPS.
BINT (2023 AIR) and Leyya Mona Tawil (2020 SFCF) activate ISSUE Online this March in celebration of the 20th anniversary of ISSUE’s AIR program.
Taraka (member of Prince Rama, 2011 AIR) returns to share “campfire songs” as a potential antidote to post-digital isolation. Joanna Mattrey opens the evening with an improvised solo set highlighting her signature approach to prepared viola.
Tatyana Tenenbaum (2022 AIR) creates a shifting tapestry of live vocal textures that unfurl, loop, emerge and disappear within the folds of ISSUE Project Room’s walls.
ISSUE presents The Days Pass Quickly Immersed in the Shadow of Eternity, a new composition for sampled and live early flutes in 8-channel sound by 2015 AIR Lea Bertucci, written for master flutist, Norbert Rodenkirchen. Chris McIntyre (2006 AIR) opens the evening.
ISSUE Project Room is proud to participate in Bang on a Can’s 2026 Long Play festival, with rare presentations and festival debuts from past ISSUE Artists-In-Residence, taking place at the 22 Boerum Pl. theater.
Initially based on guerilla impulse and a dissatisfaction with the early 90’s post grunge diaspora, the No-Neck Blues Band emerged in 1993 on New York’s lower east side, soon congealing into an 8-piece cabal of practicing improvisers, determined to collectively inhabit an elsewhere entirely of their own design.
Olde English Spelling Bee + Future Sounds Presents: Predator Vision + Ducktails at ISSUE Project Room.
The Text of Light group was formed in 1999 to perform improvised music to the films of Stan Brakhage and other members of the American Cinema avant-garde of the 1950s-60s. The group takes on various permutations and tonight Lee Ranaldo, Alan Licht, DJ Olive & William Hooker will be performing at ISSUE Project Room.
A collaborative performance between Dafna Naphtali, Alex Waterman, and Darius Jones plus a performance by avant-turnbtablist, Maria Chavez at ISSUE Project Room.
ISSUE Project Room presents a collaborative performance by singer/composer Shelley Hirsch, self-taugh electronic musician Aki Onda, and video artist Ursula Scherrer.
The Dream of the Ants, the ensemble led by guitarist Terrence McManus, will be performing a new multi-sectional, through-composed work entitled, The Machine. Matt Bauder will be performing with This Could be Anywhere (w/ Jason Ajemian) & Architeuthis Walks on Land (w/ Katherine Young, Amy Cimini).
From Bacteria to Boys features some of the most startling and beautiful new voices in modern jazz and blurs the lines between rhythmic modern-jazz, chant works, RnB and 20th/21st century classical music, all with an intensity and center of focus any one familiar with Pride’s music has come to expect.