Upcoming Events

MV Carbon / Keke Hunt

22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn 11201

ISSUE presents a two-part evening featuring interdisciplinary artists MV Carbon (2010 AIR) and Keke Hunt (2023 AIR). 

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Member Event

ISSUE Member Event: Ying Liu

22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn 11201

ISSUE Members are invited to "Check in" this March. Ying Liu is a Brooklyn-based hodgepodge-ist whose work hybridizes theater, dance, video, and performance art with DIY props and an exuberant sense of play by employing consumer technology such as VR, GoPro and GPS.

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Taraka / Joanna Mattrey

22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn 11201

Taraka (member of Prince Rama, 2011 AIR) returns to share “campfire songs” as a potential antidote to post-digital isolation. Joanna Mattrey opens the evening with an improvised solo set highlighting her signature approach to prepared viola.

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Tatyana Tenenbaum: Night transits Day

22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn 11201

Tatyana Tenenbaum (2022 AIR) creates a shifting tapestry of live vocal textures that unfurl, loop, emerge and disappear within the folds of ISSUE Project Room’s walls.

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Lea Bertucci & Norbert Rodenkirchen / Chris McIntyre

22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn 11201

ISSUE presents The Days Pass Quickly Immersed in the Shadow of Eternity, a new composition for sampled and live early flutes in 8-channel sound by 2015 AIR Lea Bertucci, written for master flutist, Norbert Rodenkirchen. Chris McIntyre (2006 AIR) opens the evening.

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Bang On a Can: 2026 Long Play

22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn 11201

ISSUE Project Room is proud to participate in Bang on a Can’s 2026 Long Play festival, with rare presentations and festival debuts from past ISSUE Artists-In-Residence, taking place at the 22 Boerum Pl. theater.

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Past Events

Steven Warwick: Elevator To Mezzanine

Secret Project Robot

For his second project as 2017 Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellow, DeForrest Brown Jr. presents the premiere of Elevator to Mezzanine, a new commissioned project between Brown and Berlin-based artist, musician and writer Steven Warwick taking place at Secret Project Robot.

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Thursday, September 14th, ISSUE presents an evening of screenings, talks, and discussion with storied film activist Jonas Mekas and writer and BOMB Magazine contributor Charity Coleman as a part of Brooklyn Book Festival.

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Butch Morris (1947-2013 ) invented a new approach called "conduction," a way of composing in real time by conducting improvising musicians. To celebrate his legacy, ISSUE and the London Review of Books present a panel moderated by Adam Shatz, featuring Greg Tate, George E. Lewis, Mary Jane Leach and Brandon Ross.

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Byron Westbrook: Threshold Variations

Abrons Art Center Studio G05

Saturday, September 9th at Abrons Art Center Studio G05, Byron Westbrook continues his ISSUE residency with “Threshold Variations,” an immersive environment focusing on the synaesthetic play between light amplitude, sound volume, and the threshold of perception.

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William Basinski / Bergsonist / YATTA

First Unitarian Congregational Society

ISSUE's 2017 fall season opens at the First Unitarian Congregational Society in Brooklyn Heights with celebrated process-musician William Basinski, Brooklyn-based artist Selwa Abd’s Bergonist project, and Houston-born digipoet YATTA each in solo performance. Join as an ISSUE Member at any level and get a free ticket.

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