ISSUE presents the premiere of three audiovisual compositions by Matt Mottel (2010 AIR). These works bring Mottel’s distinct artistic sensibility into dialogue with formative figures in his life and in New York’s avant-garde, tracing a lineage that is both deeply personal and central to ISSUE’s history.
Monarch Butterfly by rocío sánchez (2026 AIR) features Melissa Almaguer (tap dance and percussion) and Kenneth Jiménez (double bass). Together, the trio explores the elusive monarch’s migratory journey through sound and movement, with each instrument articulating distinct states of motion.
Isabella Thorpe-Woods presents "Envelop/e," her second program as ISSUE’s 2026 Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellow. Bringing together choreographers Jade Manns and Ella Dawn W-S for site-specific duets, they navigate presence and absence, repetition and rupture, and the tension between inherited geometries and shifting landscapes.
"Spiriting Off" is a new solo work by luthier Webb Crawford (2026 AIR) for electric guitar, tenor banjo, and five-string banjo.
ISSUE closes the summer season with the return of Matana Roberts (2009 AIR). Opening the evening, Ben Vida (2013 AIR) will perform music from his 2026 release, "Oblivion Seekers" with vocalist Sara Magenheimer.
Celebrating Phill Niblock’s 75th Birthday and his contribution to Experimental Music. This evening includes a set by Phill Niblock, mixing his sound works, and Katherine Liberovskaya's live video. In addition to performances of Pan Fried and Sethworks.
Celebrating Phill Niblock’s 75th Birthday and his contribution to Experimental Music. This evening includes performances of Didjeridoos and Don'ts, Five More String Quartets, and Summing II.
Celebrating Phill Niblock’s 75th Birthday and his contribution to Experimental Music. This evening includes performances of Tenor, 3 to 7 - 196, Four Arthurs, and A Third Trombone.
ISSUE Project Room presents a very special evening with Iva Bittová.
The Viennese group brings their refined vocabulary of sound production and sonic choreography to ISSUE Project Room.
Curated by Jmy Leary, this screening is part of an ongoing project to collect, archive and present videos, photographs, programs, posters, set props, sound scores, notes and other relics from the 80’s and 90’s NYC dance scene.
Three evenings of experimental films and videos made by women artists in the U.S. over the last six decades, subjectively culled by three guest curators well respected for the intelligence of their programming.
Three evenings of experimental films and videos made by women artists in the U.S. over the last six decades, subjectively culled by three guest curators well respected for the intelligence of their programming.