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.
R. Luke DuBois is a composer, performer, video artist, and programmer living in New York City. Sawako is a sound sculptor, a timeline-based artist and a signal alchemist in the urban life environment who understands the value of dynamics and the power of silence.
ISSUE Project Room in collaboration with Anthology Film Archives presents a performance of Greg Pope's Light Trap with support from Barry Weisblat.
ISSUE Project Room present David Weinstein and Richard Garet.
NYC-based composer, Anthony Ptak and Philadelphia-based artist, Charles Cohen share new works accompanied by NYC-based "VJ", Bec Stupak.
The Brooklyn-based collective of artists and technologists LEMUR brings "Best of ReSiDeNt" to ISSUE Project Room with performances by Taylor Kuffner and Holland Hopson. Also performing will be composer and frequent LEMUR collaborator, Ben Neill.
An audio-visual collaboration between Haeyoung Kim (a.k.a. Bubblyfish) and Chika will open the evening, followed by a second collaboration between sound artist and composer Stephan Moore and video artist Madeleine Gallagher.
ISSUE Project Room presents performances by New York City-based artists Andy Graydon and Ray Sweeten.
In all of his creative activities, Tristan Perich is inspired by the aesthetics of math and physics, and works with simple forms and complex systems. This evening he will perform two pieces: Telescope and This Resonant Room.