

MATA presents its 27th annual MATA Festival, this year in partnership with ISSUE Project Room at the limited capacity 22 Boerum Pl. theater. Featuring four concerts across four nights, this year’s festival explores the concept of INTERGALACTIC INFINITY: Music Between Spaces.
ISSUE Project Room hosts a free limited engagement for up to 10 ISSUE Members with RSVP with Thomas Ankersmit on his artistic practice with the Serge Modular analog synthesizer, his main instrument since 2006.
ISSUE Project Room is honored to present a special recording session by composer, poet, and 2021 Artist-In-Residence JJJJJerome Ellis, joined by longtime collaborator S T A R R busby. This intimate event gives unique access to ISSUE Members and launches the 2025 summer membership campaign.
At 2pm, ISSUE hosts a free public town hall organized by sound conceptualist & 2009 ISSUE Artist-In-Residence Matana Roberts–the first in a nationwide series of gatherings.
ISSUE streams A Spark of Haelegen (Ave Maria), a new work by composer, musician, artist, and philosopher Hunter Hunt-Hendrix. The piece responds "Fantasy and Self-Transformation," a score by Jacki Apple included in Womens Work Volume #1, 1975.
ISSUE streams a new work by dance artist Ogemdi Ude, who steps into the intricate and intimate instructions of Alison Knowles' "Proposition IV (Squid)" score through a dance film that reckons with loss and accumulation.
ISSUE streams Ad Astra, a new work by French multidisciplinary artist Annabelle Playe. The piece responds to the "ZODIACAL MEDITATION" score by Julie Winter included in Womens Work Volume #1, 1975.
ISSUE streams Ruzunguzungu a new work by British-Rwandan musician and sound artist Auclair. The piece responds to the “Stamping Circles” score by artist Carole Weber included in Womens Work Volume #1, 1975.
ISSUE is pleased to host an event for ISSUE Members with Cory Arcangel, Hampus Lindwall, Roc Jiménez de Cisneros (EVOL), Akira Sileas & Nils Henrik Asheim in conversation around the Remind Me Tomorrow pipe organ commissions.
ISSUE presents Remind Me Tomorrow, organized in collaboration with artist Cory Arcangel and organist Hampus Lindwall, who have invited a group of artists and musicians to compose new music to be performed on the pipe organ.
2021 Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellow Sami Hopkins presents her first program in Propositions from the deadWIP, featuring composer, drummer, and scholar Jessie Cox in collaboration with Kathryn Schulmeister, Juliana Gaona-Villamizar, “Dac” Chang, and Douglas R. Ewart.
Sound/visual artist, improviser, and performer Austin Sley Julian opens his 2021 ISSUE residency with the premiere of Observitor Ghosting, hosted at The Living Gallery.