Upcoming Events

Liturgy

22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn 11201

For this anniversary season, Haela Hunt-Hendrix presents a limited capacity solo program for looped electric guitar, voice, electronics, and piano. Drawing from the Liturgy oeuvre, the evening also features new compositions presented at ISSUE for the first time.

Noveller / Axine M

22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn 11201

Noveller (2009 AIR) debuts selections from her latest album, I Am The Weather, alongside music drawn from across her catalog. Axine M (2024 AIR) performs with fretless guitar, voice, and computer

Artists-In-Residence 2026

rocío sánchez: Caminos

22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn 11201

Developed throughout sánchez’s residency, Caminos provides a framework for musical ideas to emerge and unravel through improvisation, extended technique, and lighting design. sánchez is joined by friends and collaborators che ali, Nava Dunkelman, and Henry Fraser.

Past Events

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 Lea Bertucci (2015 AIR), written for master flutist, Norbert Rodenkirchen. Chris McIntyre (2006 AIR) opens the evening.

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.

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 (2021 AIR) opens the evening with an improvised solo set highlighting her signature approach to prepared viola.

ISSUE Online

In Conversation: BINT & Leyya Mona Tawil

Streaming on this webpage and Vimeo

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.

Member Event

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.

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). 

Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellowship 2026

Sold Out! Kate Williams / Aminah Ibrahim

22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn 11201

2026 Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellow Isabella Thorpe-Woods will present her first program, Dear, at ISSUE’s 22 Boerum Pl. theater. Over the course of her fellowship, the artist will share a series of events that explore letters as a curatorial prompt, and the ways they both fail and succeed in transmitting meaning or reaching their desired destination.

Artists-In-Residence 2026

rocío sánchez: Entornos

22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn 11201

Traveling from Ensenada, Baja California, across the border into San Diego, 2026 Artist-In-Residence rocío sánchez traces the acoustic, cultural, and ecological resonances of the US-México Borderlands for their first commission.