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.
New York’s long-running creative music ensemble Ne(x)tworks presents its final performance. The career-spanning program nods in many of the directions explored since the group’s first concert in June 2003, showcasing graphic and hybrid scores that expose the conceptual root elements of the Ne(x)tworks project.
Esteemed Japanese band Asa-Chang & Junray draw on material from the project’s entire discography on their first visit to the U.S. Lea Bertucci & Amirtha Kidambi also perform in a recently formed duo, featuring improvisations for voice processed through idiosyncratic misuse of tape machines.
ISSUE Project Room is delighted to honor renowned artist and ISSUE Board member Robert Longo and ISSUE’s beloved late founder Suzanne Fiol . This year’s event celebrates two artists who envisioned ISSUE from its earliest years, bringing a unique perspective to New York’s avant-garde performance landscape.
ISSUE is honored to present an evening in celebration of the organization’s beloved late founder Suzanne Fiol. The event is a showcase of the exhibition Suzanne Fiol: Ten Years Alive, a conversation with Suzanne’s close friends: artists Kathy Brew, Michelle Handelman & Kimiko Hahn + a performance from MV Carbon.
ISSUE presents the world premiere of The Sun Too Close to the Earth, an expansive new ensemble work by iconoclast composer Rhys Chatham. The performance is presented as a part of the French Institute Alliance Française’s Crossing The Line Festival and also features work from Zeena Parkins & Jonathan Kane.
ISSUE presents Moor Mother, the viscerally charged output of Philadelphia-based musician, poet, visual artist, and activist Camae Ayewa + new work from Jerusalem In My Heart. The evening spans both projects’ enduring interest in exploring both ancestral and contemporary narratives through powerful sound.
loveconductors presents "ghoul|take III," curated by 2019 Curatorial Fellow Benedict Nguyen. Directed by Shantelle Courvoisier, loveconductors is a human movement project feat. Renée Colbert, Justin Faircloth, Maestro Flux, Ube Halaya, Shiloh Hodges, Samantha Lysaght, Light McAuliffe, Madeline Warriner, and slowdanger.
Lindsay Packer premieres her second work as a 2019 Artist-In-Residence, a collaboration with composer and performer Anaïs Maviel. Revealing the subliminal complexity within the synaesthetic wave behaviors of light and sound, Packer and Maviel conjure the harmonics inherent in their fast-traveling wave forms.