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.
From the archives, with The Artist Project for Insight, Action & Change, Nicedisc, David Daniell, Ateleia, Tim Barnes, Margarida Garcia, Carol Mirakove, Jack Martin, Shelley Hirsch, Joel Schlemowitz, and Zeroboy.
We're back in our original space at 619 East 6th Street (between Ave. B & C)!
From the archives, a benefit with Sean Meehan, Alan Licht, Elliott Sharp, Marco Cappelli, Barbara Barg and Billionaires for Bush Fonda Sterling and DJ Olive.
ErstQuake 1 is the first in what will hopefully be an ongoing series of collaborative events between Erstwhile Records and Quakebasket, both based in and around NYC.
A poetry reading on the RNC, President Bush and the crisis in Iraq
From the archives, Rattapallax poetry reading plus performances by Margarida Garcia, Barry Weisblat, Dion Workman, Tim Barnes, Jason Lescalleet, Greg Kelley, Sean Meehan, David Daniell, Keith Rowe, and Tim Barnes.
For the 2004 HOWL Festival, ISSUE Project Room will be presenting an interpretation of seminal British avant-garde composer Cornelius Cardew’s 1969 experimental music piece The Great Learning from Paragraph Two.