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 (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
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.
ISSUE presents DREAMCLUB_RADI0, an extra-dimensional radio program which takes place at 3:⚐ℹ︎.?⛽︎ A.M. every night. On this special evening, join your hosts as they make a rare visit to the material plane at MITU580.
Webb Crawford presents that passed away, this also may. For their culminating residency commission at ISSUE’s 22 Boerum Pl. theater, Crawford and collaborator Emma Mistele will play the organistrum in trio with Sam Boston performing on his self-built electric duochord with wheel.
With Womens Work
Wednesday, February 3rd at 8pm EST, ISSUE is pleased to stream sound artist crys cole’s Valid ForeverrRrrRRrrr… (pt.1), a lockdown interpretation of composer Beth Anderson’s Valid For Life.
Thursday, January 28th, ISSUE and Abrons Arts Center are pleased to present a new video piece by Elysia Crampton Chuquimia, as well as the premiere of Seasons in a Quasar, a new collaborative work by Brooklyn-based vocalist and producer Embaci and South African via NYC artist Dasychira.
Artists-In-Residence 2020
Composer and performer John McCowen presents his third and final performance as a 2020 ISSUE Artist-In-Residence with LOW QUARTET, featuring Leila Bordreuil, Zach Rowden, & Lester St. Louis.
ISSUE and Harvestworks are pleased to stream a commissioned residency project from multidisciplinary artist Eva Davidova. Global Mode > is an interactive, experimental online performance on ecological disaster, inertia, and manipulation of information.
Artists-In-Residence 2020
2020 ISSUE Artist-In-Residence Holland Andrews presents There You Are, a series of micro-performances taken place over the phone. Andrews will email a work to each participant to be played in an available speaker or sound system in their home while Andrews' then calls them to sing and speak to them.
Jordan Demetrius Lloyd presents The Last Moon in Mellowland, curated by 2019 Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellow Benedict Nguyen. This work is a choreographic collaging of movement, sound, and visuals that compile months of footage and rehearsals over late summer and early fall 2020.
Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellowship 2020
2020 Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellow Leyya Tawil presents “Crucial Language / Dirar Kalash & Jamal R. Moore,” her third program in the NOMADIC SIGNALS series. “Crucial Language” places the work of Kalash (Haifa, Palestine) and Moore (Baltimore, US) in conversation through performance and discussion.
DeForrest Brown Jr. (2017 Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellow) returns to curate “The Drexciyan Empire,” a collection of audio visual montages by illustrator and futurist A. Qadim Haqq and soundtracked by Dopplereffekt + conversation between Brown & A. Qadim Haqq on the legacy of Drexciya.