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

Michèle Bokanowski / Paula Matthusen

Brooklyn Music School

ISSUE presents pioneering French composer of electroacoustic music, Michèle Bokanowski, for her East Coast debut at Brooklyn Music School. The evening will also feature two new works by composer Paula Matthusen that includes improvisations with Elliott Sharp, Matthew Evan Taylor, and video by Tom Snelgrove.

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Kwami Winfield: Thorn 6

22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn 11201

Kwami Winfield presents her first program as a 2024 ISSUE Artist-In-Residence, "Thorn 6," featuring live computer processing of trumpet performance.

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Sold Out! Cecilia Lopez & John Driscoll: Gestures/Murmurations

22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn 11201

ISSUE invites our community in partnership with Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center and Fridman Gallery to the 22 Boerum Pl. theater to explore the evolution of Gestures/Murmurations by sound artists Cecilia Lopez & John Driscoll.

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Holland Andrews / Methods Body

22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn 11201

Holland Andrews (2020 ISSUE Artist-In-Residence) returns to the 22 Boerum Pl. theater with Portland-based sound artists Methods Body to present solo performances, plus the world premiere of their collaboration, REMAIN.

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Sold Out! Joni: Surge: Intricate Things and Dangerous Tools

22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn 11201

ISSUE is pleased to present Surge: Intricate Things and Dangerous Tools (previously "Performance #1"), the first commission from 2024 Artist-In-Residence Joni. The artist will present work-in-progress showings and new compositions of incredibly revealing, intimate and visceral sound work, alongside new ceramic pieces.

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Avant Joik / Joan La Barbara

Brooklyn Music School

Experimental Nordic artists Avant Joik make their 2024 U.S. debut at ISSUE Project Room. Blending traditional joik language and vocal experimentation using electronic soundscapes, Indigenous Sámi singer Katarina Barruk (vocals/joik) and acclaimed experimentalist Maja Solveig Kjelstrup Ratkje (vocals and live electronics) perform with live visuals by Sámi artist Matti Aikio. Renowned experimental vocalist and composer Joan La Barbara will open the evening.

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