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.
BINT (2023 AIR) and Leyya Mona Tawil (2020 SFCF) activate ISSUE Online this March in celebration of the 20th anniversary of ISSUE’s AIR program.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Onda, Raissnia and Doron Sadja perform with paintings, film/slide projectors, tape recorders, tube amps... Projecting 16mm film and slides onto the black surface of oil paints, Raissnia creates a deepened sense of immersion in an alien landscape, while Onda's soundscapes challenge the boundaries of the picture plane.
This concert concludes the first International Composers Exchange, which brought five artists from the Netherlands to New York City to work in residency with some of the city's most dynamic young ensembles and artistic institutions. With new works that range from jazz to chamber music to video installation.
AVA presents a solo exhibition of past and recent work by Japanese sound art pioneer Akio Suzuki. A series of silent objects inviting viewers to imagine their sounds populate the front room. Works on paper, drawings and graphic scores will be on display in addition to a sculpture and instrument made of Japanese bamboo.
ISSUE and Light Industry present the US premiere of Leaving (With Four Half-Turns), a thirty minute solid-light film by Anthony McCall with a live performance for guitar and amplifier by David Grubbs. McCall's Line Describing a Cone 2.0, and a solo set by Grubbs begin the evening.
This special evening, devoted to the music of acclaimed young composer Mohammed Fairouz, features the New York Premiere of The Named Angels and other works performed by the Borromeo String Quartet. The Cygnus Ensemble performs with soprano Elizabeth Farnum, as well as other piano works and songs with pianists.
RESCHEDULED! Artist-in-Residence Sergei Tcherepnin will premiere a new six-channel composition to be played through your body. The Massage Performances will be limited to a small number of participants, seven massages per evening with a waiting room for a small audience. RSVP required.
Lutanist Jozef Van Wissem and filmaker/guitarist Jim Jarmush release their second album, The Mystery of Heaven, in November on Sacred Bones. For this free release celebration, Van Wissem performs with guitarists Loren Connors and Clint Heidorn.
Michael Pisaro's foray into experimental-pop, "Tombstones" reconstitutes traces and fragments of the voice. Jason Brogan will lead an ensemble of musicians including Julia Holter, from Los Angeles, New York City, and Charleston in a performance of selections from the recently released album.