ISSUE presents the premiere of three audiovisual compositions by Matt Mottel (2010 AIR). These works bring Mottel’s distinct artistic sensibility into dialogue with formative figures in his life and in New York’s avant-garde, tracing a lineage that is both deeply personal and central to ISSUE’s history.
Media
ISSUE has a significant archive of performance documentation that represents both an important link to the past, and a future resource for artists and audiences. ISSUE’s public media archive is a consistently updated and freely accessible collection of video and audio documentation from recent and past ISSUE performances. Currently, ISSUE is in the process of digitizing historical documentation from its former homes at The Old American Can Factory and silo space in Gowanus, Brooklyn. Regular updates feature newly published materials within ISSUE’s constantly expanding performance history.
Eva Davidova: Audience As Virus
Audience As Virus is an installation-performance by Eva Davidova (2020 AIR and TIP fellow) that involves the audience in the possibility to break AI predictions of human movement. Featuring Selwa Abd (2022 AIR and TIP fellow), Vinson Fraley, Danielle McPhatter, Dafna Naphtali, and Wobbly.
Chris McIntyre
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 Lea Bertucci (2015 AIR), written for master flutist, Norbert Rodenkirchen. Chris McIntyre (2006 AIR) opens the evening.
Lea Bertucci & Norbert Rodenkirchen
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 Lea Bertucci (2015 AIR), written for master flutist, Norbert Rodenkirchen.
Tatyana Tenenbaum: Night transits Day
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.
In Conversation: Anna RG & Theodore (ted) Kerr
ISSUE Online brings together Anna RG (2025 AIR) and Theodore (ted) Kerr (2022 SFCF) for an exchange that moves beyond conversation. Drawing on RG’s speculative fiction project, Sick Music Center, the pair establish a shared set of rules, organizing their dialogue around three key prompts they call “Strategy,” “Focus,” and “Loose Ends.”
Joanna Mattrey
Joanna Mattrey (2021 AIR) shares an improvised solo set highlighting her signature approach to prepared viola.
ISSUE Member Event: Ying Liu
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.
Aminah Ibrahim: Dear,
2026 Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellow Isabella Thorpe-Woods presents her first program, Dear, at ISSUE’s 22 Boerum Pl. theater. Over the course of her fellowship, the artist will share a series of events that explore letters as a curatorial prompt, and the ways they both fail and succeed in transmitting meaning or reaching their desired destination.
Kate Williams: Dear,
2026 Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellow Isabella Thorpe-Woods presents her first program, Dear, at ISSUE’s 22 Boerum Pl. theater. Over the course of her fellowship, the artist will share a series of events that explore letters as a curatorial prompt, and the ways they both fail and succeed in transmitting meaning or reaching their desired destination.