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.
Littoral
ISSUE Project Room's Littoral series continues with Susan Daitch, Amy Hempel, and Jim Shepard. Plus musical guest Elliot Sharp.
Philadelphia-based pop trio Aunt Dracula are joined by Brooklyn-based duo High Places at ISSUE Project Room.
Out of Goosetown, an evening of Irish stories and songs with Susan McKeown, Honor Molloy, and Yvonne Molloy.
The Noisy Mediation Band lead by Peter Zummo perform at ISSUE Project Room featuring performers Ernie Brooks, Michael Evans, David First, and Yvette Perez.
his evening celebrates the release of Force of Light. Written by Dan Kaufman, the series of songs interweave the words of Romanian-Jewish Holocaust poet, Paul Celan with instrumental music performed by Brooklyn’s avant-cabaret pioneers, Barbez.
Neptune’s origins trace to 1994 as a student art project by sculptor/musician Jason Sanford, who, in order to create a new music medium, forged heavy, menacing-looking guitars and drums out of circular saw blades, gas tanks, oil drums, bike parts, VCR casings and miscellaneous scrap metal found in the trash.
Interdisciplinary collaborations between Marc Zegans with Edwin Torres and Wanda Phipps with Joel Schlemowitz.
Keith Rowe and Julien Ottavi meet for a very rare and special two-night program. Each will play solo and then they will play only their second duo set ever.