Monarch Butterfly by rocío sánchez (2026 AIR) features Melissa Almaguer (tap dance and percussion) and Kenneth Jiménez (double bass). Together, the trio explores the elusive monarch’s migratory journey through sound and movement, with each instrument articulating distinct states of motion.
Isabella Thorpe-Woods presents "Envelop/e," her second program as ISSUE’s 2026 Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellow. Bringing together choreographers Jade Manns and Ella Dawn W-S for site-specific duets, they navigate presence and absence, repetition and rupture, and the tension between inherited geometries and shifting landscapes.
"Spiriting Off" is a new solo work by luthier Webb Crawford (2026 AIR) for electric guitar, tenor banjo, and five-string banjo.
ISSUE closes the summer season with the return of Matana Roberts (2009 AIR). Opening the evening, Ben Vida (2013 AIR) will perform music from his 2026 release, "Oblivion Seekers" with vocalist Sara Magenheimer.
Artists-In-Residence 2021
Violist Joanna Mattrey continues her 2021 ISSUE residency with the premiere of POV: Simulation, a digital sound walk created with physicist Dr. Graham Walker. Using the frequencies of Mattrey’s soundscape, Dr. Walker generates a visualization that reveals the vibrational patterns formed in real-time.
ISSUE presents a remote audio visual realization of a soundtrack for a dystopian zone from legendary artist, musician, record producer, model maker and cultural provocateur, Jimmy Cauty.
ISSUE presents a streamed program celebrating the occasion of revolutionary American composer Alvin Lucier’s 90th birthday. Spanning nearly 30 hours, the program features 90 artists staging their own performances of Lucier’s paradigmatic 1969 work I am sitting in a room.
ISSUE streams a new work by musician and 2008 ISSUE Artist-In-Residence Audrey Chen. The piece is the final work of the With Womens Work series, and responds to Beth Anderson's score "VALID FOR LIFE" included in Womens Work Volume #1, 1975.
With Womens Work
ISSUE streams Attached or Detached (partial disappearance), a new work by sound artist and musician Sydney Spann. The piece responds to Sari Dienes’ poem-score, “Experiment," included in Womens Work Volume #1, 1975.
With Womens Work
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.
