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.
A tribute concert for Lester Bowie
Expedition to Gowanus, is an evening of solos and combinations from New Yorkers E Sharp & Z Parkins and guests Steve Piccolo and Gak Sato.
Brooklyn-based recording artist and writer, David Grubbs joins special quests with poet Kenneth Goldsmith, artist Michael Graeve, and sound sculptor Dominique Petitgand in an evening of sound art, poetry and visual art.
A collaboration between guitarist Alan Licht and poet Ken Goldsmith.
Sarah - Hadley Yakir violin, Grace Brahimi poetry, Sophia keyboard/vocals, Max Coburn piano, Stun Gun, Defibrillator, Feedback
After two years in the East Village, we are celebrating our move into a renovated silo located in an industrial park on the Gowanus Canal.