Upcoming Events
27th Annual MATA Festival
22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn 11201
MATA presents its 27th annual MATA Festival, this year in partnership with ISSUE Project Room at the limited capacity 22 Boerum Pl. theater. Featuring four concerts across four nights, this year’s festival explores the concept of INTERGALACTIC INFINITY: Music Between Spaces.
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Member Event: Thomas Ankersmit
Computer Music Center
ISSUE Project Room hosts a free limited engagement for up to 10 ISSUE Members with RSVP with Thomas Ankersmit on his artistic practice with the Serge Modular analog synthesizer, his main instrument since 2006.
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Glory, Glory: Live Recording with JJJJJerome Ellis & STARR busby
22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn 11201
ISSUE Project Room is honored to present a special recording session by composer, poet, and 2021 Artist-In-Residence JJJJJerome Ellis, joined by longtime collaborator S T A R R busby. This intimate event gives unique access to ISSUE Members and launches the 2025 summer membership campaign.
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LISTENING THROUGH THE FIRE: A Town Hall with Matana Roberts & Friends
22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn 11201
At 2pm, ISSUE hosts a free public town hall organized by sound conceptualist & 2009 ISSUE Artist-In-Residence Matana Roberts–the first in a nationwide series of gatherings.
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Past Events
ISSUE Member Event: An Artist Talk & Reception with Artist-In-Residence Sydney Spann
Brooklyn Conservatory of Music
ISSUE is pleased to invite members to an artist talk and reception with 2022 ISSUE Artist-In-Residence (AIR), sound artist and musician Sydney Spann at the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music. The evening will serve as an epilogue and celebration of Spann’s first commissioned work as an ISSUE AIR.
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NOMADIC SIGNALS: The Seas featuring “A” Trio / Nava Dunkelman
58 7th Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11217 (Reception Entrance at Lincoln Place)
ISSUE Project Room in partnership with the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music and Arab.AMP are pleased to welcome 2020 Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellow Leyya Tawil to present The Seas, her fifth program in the NOMADIC SIGNALS series.
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Propositions from the DeadWIP: Place of Toil / S. Warren & Sami Hopkins
Streaming on this webpage and Vimeo
Thursday, May 5th at 8pm ET, ISSUE presents Place of Toil, an online piece building on a method of harsh noise-based research, facilitated by artist and researcher S. Warren and 2021 Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellow Sami Hopkins.
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For her first commissioned work as a 2022 ISSUE Artist-In-Residence, choreographer and composer Tatyana Tenenbaum presents For Selma, a solo for voice, movement, microphone, memory, and textile. The performance will premiere at the 14th Street Y in the East Village, Manhattan.
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Sold Out! Sydney Spann: Cow, Cow, Cow, Rabbit, Recalcitrance, Bunny, Dog, Dog, Dog
CPR – Center for Performance Research
ISSUE Artist-In-Residence, sound artist and musician Sydney Spann presents "Cow, Cow, Cow, Rabbit, Recalcitrance, Bunny, Dog, Dog, Dog" a performance-activated sound installation using the entirety of CPR- Center for Performance Research's theater & gallery space.
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Sold Out! Dion TYGAPAW McKenzie: Devil Woman (Obeah Woman) Part 1: dem nuh like we an we nuh like dem
The Chocolate Factory Theater
For their first commissioned work as an ISSUE Artist-In-Residence, producer, DJ, and artist Dion TYGAPAW McKenzie presents the first part of Devil Woman (Obeah Woman), an opera in three parts. Using Techno as their main genre of focus, the work urges us to renegotiate and expand our understanding of the genre.
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Sold Out! Yvonne Rainer’s "Remembering and Dismembering Trio A" with Brittany Bailey / David Behrman’s "Open Space with Brass" with Ed Bear & Ensemble
The Flamboyán Theater at The Clemente
ISSUE presents an evening of pioneering work from choreographer and filmmaker Yvonne Rainer and composer David Behrman, highlighting the artists’ work interpreted and presented by a new generation of artists.
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THE BODY POPULAR: BEYOND THE FLAT with Zachary Fabri & Samantha Box
Weeksville Heritage Center (Entrance on Bergen Street)
2022 Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellow Theodore Kerr presents BEYOND THE FLAT, his first program in THE BODY POPULAR series. The program features an outdoor performance by multi-disciplinary artist Zachary Fabri, based on a commissioned portrait of him by photographer Samantha Box.