Formed in NYC in 1993, the improvising collective No-Neck Blues Band (NNCK) favors anonymity, autonomy, and obfuscation. Alongside founding member Keith Connolly (2016 AIR), they return to open ISSUE’s Fall season at First Unitarian Congregational Society in Brooklyn.
ISSUE presents the first commission from Eden Girma (2026 AIR). Part dreamscape and part summoning circle, an intimate diasporic familial archive is pieced together through the eyes of a five-year-old child.
In partnership with Franklin Furnace as part of their 50th anniversary commemoration and November release of "Back to the Present: 50 Years of Free Expression with Franklin Furnace" ISSUE presents an evening of performance and conversation.
Incorporating elements of noise, trance and minimalism, Sergei Tcherepnin (2012 AIR) presents new work for Serge Modular synthesizer.
This installment of io brings together choreographer Kim Brandt (2015 AIR) and Isabella Thorpe-Woods (2026 SFCF). Centered around never-before-released footage from Clear Night (2016)—Brandt's eight-day AIR commission at Pioneer Works—the project revisits a performance that has remained largely unseen for nearly a decade.
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.
ISSUE Project Room presents an evening of performances by Xu Fengxia, Min Xiao-Fen and Ned Rothenberg.
Composer/performer Elizabeth Brown and visual artist Lothar Osterburg join forces for two evenings of chamber music and art.
A night of great classical and contemporary chamber music with duets, trios, quartets and quintets. Works by Music by Boccherini, Cage, Henze, Krenek, Stravinsky, and more.