MV Carbon / Keke Hunt
22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn 11201
ISSUE presents a two-part evening featuring interdisciplinary artists MV Carbon (2010 AIR) and Keke Hunt (2023 AIR).
Upcoming Events
ISSUE Member Event: Ying Liu
22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn 11201
ISSUE Members are invited to "Check in" this March. Ying Liu is a Brooklyn-based hodgepodge-ist whose work hybridizes theater, dance, video, and performance art with DIY props and an exuberant sense of play by employing consumer technology such as VR, GoPro and GPS.
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BINT (2023 AIR) and Leyya Mona Tawil (2020 SFCF) activate ISSUE Online this March in celebration of the 20th anniversary of ISSUE’s AIR program.
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Taraka / Joanna Mattrey
22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn 11201
Taraka (member of Prince Rama, 2011 AIR) returns to share “campfire songs” as a potential antidote to post-digital isolation. Joanna Mattrey opens the evening with an improvised solo set highlighting her signature approach to prepared viola.
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Tatyana Tenenbaum: Night transits Day
22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn 11201
Tatyana Tenenbaum (2022 AIR) creates a shifting tapestry of live vocal textures that unfurl, loop, emerge and disappear within the folds of ISSUE Project Room’s walls.
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Lea Bertucci & Norbert Rodenkirchen / Chris McIntyre
22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn 11201
ISSUE presents The Days Pass Quickly Immersed in the Shadow of Eternity, a new composition for sampled and live early flutes in 8-channel sound by 2015 AIR Lea Bertucci, written for master flutist, Norbert Rodenkirchen. Chris McIntyre (2006 AIR) opens the evening.
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Bang On a Can: 2026 Long Play
22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn 11201
ISSUE Project Room is proud to participate in Bang on a Can’s 2026 Long Play festival, with rare presentations and festival debuts from past ISSUE Artists-In-Residence, taking place at the 22 Boerum Pl. theater.
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Past Events
THE BODY POPULAR: AUDIO MEME with James T. Green, Josh Gwynn & Leila Day
39 Willoughby St, Brooklyn (at 370 Jay Street: Room 103)
2022 Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellow Theodore Kerr presents AUDIO MEME, his second program in THE BODY POPULAR series. AUDIO MEME is a project that explores the power and intimacy of podcasts to impact progressive social change.
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Fred Moten, Brandon López & Gerald Cleaver / Pamela Z / SYANIDE
First Unitarian Congregational Society
ISSUE opens its 2022 Fall season at First Unitarian Congregational Society in Brooklyn Heights with an in-person performance from the new improvising group of Fred Moten (voice) Brandon López (double bass), and Gerald Cleaver (drums), new work from composer/performer and media artist Pamela Z, plus SYANIDE.
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Liturgy / John Wiese / Victoria Shen
First Unitarian Congregational Society
ISSUE closes it’s summer season with an expansive program of liberated sound featuring new work from Liturgy—the “transcendental black metal” project of composer/philosopher Hunter Hunt-Hendrix—as well as new solo work by artist/composer John Wiese, and musician, visual artist, and instrument builder Victoria Shen.
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Queer Trash Presents: Will Atkins / Lucie Vítková / Gabe Rubin
The Invisible Dog Art Center
2018 Suzanne Fiol Curatorial fellow and collective Queer Trash are thrilled to present new work from composer and multi-instrumentalist Lucie Vítková, performance artist Gabe Rubin, and butoh dancer Will Atkins—an evening spanning performance art, experimental composition, movement, and rope suspension.
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Fuji||||||||||ta / Tomoko Hojo
Brooklyn Music School
ISSUE and AvanTokyo are pleased to present the debut New York City performance of Japanese sound artist Fuji||||||||||ta, who performs in-person with his self-built one-of-a-kind pipe organ instrument that incorporates voice synthesized water tanks. The evening will also feature work from sound artist Tomoko Hojo.
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Alvin Lucier Memorial Livestream
Streaming on this webpage and Vimeo
On Father’s Day, Sunday, June 19th - 2pm ET, The Stokes-Lucier family and ISSUE Project Room will host a memorial for the late Alvin Lucier (May 14th, 1931 - Dec. 1st, 2021), revolutionary American composer and beloved pioneer of experimental music.
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Bergsonist: As If Reality?
Building 10a Nolan Park Governors Island
June 10 8pm & June 11 3pm, ISSUE & Harvestworks are pleased to present two new works from artist, musician, and designer Selwa Abd (Bergsonist). The June 10 program features the premiere of a new video work streamed on the ISSUE website; June 11 is an outdoor performance taking place on Governors Island.
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Che Chen: WHALE CREEK
Whale Creek Canal (Newtown Creek Nature Walk)
June 8 7pm & June 9 8pm, ISSUE presents two new works from artist Che Chen. The June 8 is a live outdoor performance along the banks of Whale Creek Canal—the first of a two part (inter)action with the sonic environment of Newtown Creek, former Mespat hunting/foraging grand now home to the Newtown Creek Nature Walk.