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.
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.
Artists-In-Residence 2022
Choreographer and composer Tatyana Tenenbaum continues her 2022 ISSUE residency with Long tones in the days of omer, a collaboration with independent dancer, choreographer, Jewish educator, and service leader Hadar Ahuvia. The performance will take place at Congregation Beth Elohim in Park Slope, Brooklyn.
Artists-In-Residence 2022
ISSUE is pleased to invite members to an artist talk and reception with 2022 ISSUE Artist-In-Residence (AIR), sound artist and musician Sydney Spann at the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music. The evening will serve as an epilogue and celebration of Spann’s first commissioned work as an ISSUE AIR.
ISSUE Project Room in partnership with the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music and Arab.AMP are pleased to welcome 2020 Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellow Leyya Tawil to present The Seas, her fifth program in the NOMADIC SIGNALS series.
Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellowship 2021
Thursday, May 5th at 8pm ET, ISSUE presents Place of Toil, an online piece building on a method of harsh noise-based research, facilitated by artist and researcher S. Warren and 2021 Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellow Sami Hopkins.
For her first commissioned work as a 2022 ISSUE Artist-In-Residence, choreographer and composer Tatyana Tenenbaum presents For Selma, a solo for voice, movement, microphone, memory, and textile. The performance will premiere at the 14th Street Y in the East Village, Manhattan.
Artists-In-Residence 2022
ISSUE Artist-In-Residence, sound artist and musician Sydney Spann presents "Cow, Cow, Cow, Rabbit, Recalcitrance, Bunny, Dog, Dog, Dog" a performance-activated sound installation using the entirety of CPR- Center for Performance Research's theater & gallery space.
Artists-In-Residence 2022
For their first commissioned work as an ISSUE Artist-In-Residence, producer, DJ, and artist Dion TYGAPAW McKenzie presents the first part of Devil Woman (Obeah Woman), an opera in three parts. Using Techno as their main genre of focus, the work urges us to renegotiate and expand our understanding of the genre.