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

Sold Out! Gang Gang Dance / Adjua Gargi Nzinga Greaves

First Unitarian Congregational Society

ISSUE is thrilled to commemorate the close of the 2021 season with a special year-end event featuring legendary New York band Gang Gang Dance, and writer/artist Adjua Gargi Nzinga Greaves. The performances will take place at the First Unitarian Congregational Society in Brooklyn Heights.

Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellowship 2021

Propositions from the DeadWIP: tizita, from the feet up / aden

Streaming on this webpage and Vimeo

2021 Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellow Sami Hopkins presents her third program in Propositions from the deadWIP, featuring multi-instrumental musician, singer, and composer aden. This performance is co-presented with The Chocolate Factory Theater.

Artists-In-Residence 2021

Austin Sley Julian: Corrosiv is Complete with Andrya Ambro & Leila Bordreuil

17 Frost Gallery

For his third commissioned work as a 2021 ISSUE Artist-In-Residence, sound/visual artist, improviser, and performer Austin Sley Julian presents “Corrosiv is Complete,” a collaboration with percussionist, vocalist, and composer Andrya Ambro and cellist, composer, and 2016 ISSUE Artist-In-Residence Leila Bordreuil.

KMRU: imperceptible , perceptible

Streaming on this webpage and Vimeo

ISSUE is pleased to stream new work from Nairobi-born, Berlin-based sound artist KMRU. Known for entwining his compositions with field recordings from his native Kenya and the surrounding countries of East Africa, KMRU produces work uniquely positioned between the cultures of ambient and African musics.

Artists-In-Residence 2021

Sold Out! JJJJJerome Ellis: The Clearing

The Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church

ISSUE and The Poetry Project present the official launch for composer and poet JJJJJerome Ellis' The Clearing. The piece asks how stuttering, blackness, and music can be practices of refusal against hegemonic governance of time, speech, and encounter.

Artists-In-Residence 2021

Sold Out! Joanna Mattrey: New Compositions for Improvisor

CPR – Center for Performance Research

For the third and final program of her ISSUE Project Room Residency, violist Joanna Mattrey presents an evening of World Premieres written for Mattrey by Leila Bordreuil, Nick Dunston, Weasel Walter, and Lucie Vitkova.

Sold Out! George Lewis: Recombinant Works 2014 - 2019

Flamboyán Theater at The Clemente

ISSUE is pleased to present an evening of recent electroacoustic works from visionary composer, trombonist, and scholar George Lewis. At ISSUE, Lewis presents a “portrait concert” of four recent works performed by musicians Laura Cocks, Seth Parker Woods, Dana Jessen, Conrad Harris & Pauline Kim.