ISSUE and Time Based are pleased to stream a new collaboration between composer Oleksii Podat and Suzanne Thorpe as part of ongoing activations of the Distant Pairs Series. Throughout May 2025, ISSUE and Time Based will co-present three digital commissions uniting artists based in Kyiv and New York.
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.
Distant Pairs: Eden Girma & Maryana Klochko
ISSUE and Time Based are pleased to stream a new collaboration between multi-instrumentalist Eden Girma and film composer Maryana Klochko as part of ongoing activations of the Distant Pairs Series. Throughout May 2025, ISSUE and Time Based will co-present three digital commissions uniting artists based in Kyiv and New York.
Distant Pairs: Madison Greenstone & Anton Saenko
ISSUE and Time Based are pleased to stream a new collaboration between musician Madison Greenstone and installation artist Anton Saenko as part of ongoing activations of the Distant Pairs Series. Throughout May 2025, ISSUE and Time Based will co-present three digital commissions uniting artists based in Kyiv and New York.
Dormir, Enlaces: Emiliano Zúñiga Hernández, isabel crespo pardo, Daniel Prim & Drew Wesely
2025 Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellow Kenneth Jiménez will present his first program, Dormir, Enlaces, exploring the potentiality of sound through oneiric photography by Emiliano Zúñiga Hernández.
Zosha Warpeha: Shadow, Come
For her first commission, 2025 Artist-In-Residence Zosha Warpeha will adapt the tuning of her sympathetic-stringed Hardanger d’amore in response to the acoustics of the 22 Boerum Pl. theater.
Jackson-Pratt: The Microscope’s Slide: Live Painting Music No. 8 (for T.M.)
2025 Artist-In-Residence Jackson-Pratt’s first commission, The Microscope’s Slide: Live Painting Music No. 8 (for T.M.), is a multichannel performance piece using microphonic electronics and reactive canvas.
Leila Hassan
ISSUE invites audiences to the 22 Boerum Pl. theater to experience new projects by multidisciplinary artists Leila Hassan and Selwa Abd (Bergsonist).
Bergsonist
ISSUE invites audiences to the 22 Boerum Pl. theater to experience new projects by multidisciplinary artists Leila Hassan and Selwa Abd (Bergsonist).
Sofia Jernberg with Tomeka Reid, Craig Taborn & Ole Morten Vågan
Building on their 2021 digital commission as part of ISSUE’s Distant Pairs Series, Sofia Jernberg and Tomeka Reid reunite for ISSUE's 2025 Winter Season Opening concert, live at Brooklyn Music School. This event showcases Jernberg and Reid in a unique quartet, joined by NYC-based pianist Craig Taborn and Norwegian bassist Ole Morten Vågan.
Embaci
ISSUE closes the 2024 Season with long overdue live performances by multidisciplinary artist and musician–belonging to the Pakajaqi nation of Aymara people–Chuquimamani-Condori, and Brooklyn-based vocalist and producer Embaci. The year-end event marks both artists’ return to ISSUE after postponement of events during the COVID-19 pandemic and each artist’s digital commissions during 2021.
Axine M: Control Scheme
Co-presented by ISSUE and The Emily Harvey Foundation, 2024 Artist-In-Residence Axine M presents her culminating commission "Control Scheme," songs and improvisations for computer-extended fretless guitar and voice.
Katie Porter: Collaborations ex-situ
ISSUE presents the culminating commission from 2024 Artist-In-Residence Katie Porter. The composer/clarinetist presents three ongoing collaborations with artists Patricia Alessandrini, Katherine Liberovskaya, and anne penders.