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.”
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.
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.
rocío sánchez: Entornos
Traveling from Ensenada, Baja California, across the border into San Diego, 2026 Artist-In-Residence rocío sánchez traces the acoustic, cultural, and ecological resonances of the US-México Borderlands for their first commission.
Webb Crawford: Men dreme of thing that never was ne shall
2026 Artist-In-Residence Webb Crawford presents their first commission. A luthier whose practice centers on modern reconstructions of historical stringed instruments, Crawford explores their recontextualization within experimental music.
In Conversation: BINT & Leyya Mona Tawil
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.
Tristan Perich & Katie Porter: The Density of Air
2009 ISSUE AIR Tristan Perich presents a new composition written for solo clarinet and a multitude of small speakers placed throughout ISSUE’s 22 Boerum Pl. theater.
After Nan Shepherd: Nate Wooley with Joan La Barbara & Yarn/Wire
ISSUE’s 2026 Winter Season Opening concert, After Nan Shepherd, co-presented with Brooklyn Music School is a work of chamber music composed by 2011 ISSUE AIR, Nate Wooley.
Paul de Jong with Beth Daunis: Light of Day
ISSUE Project Room closes its 2025 season with Light of Day, a new work-in-progress by cellist and co-founder of the Books, Paul de Jong, presented with longtime friend and collaborator Beth Daunis.
Jackson-Pratt: Mental Re-Suspension: Live Painting Music No.10 (For Anguish Under Foot)
Expanding his "Live Painting Music" series, 2025 Artist-In-Residence Jackson-Pratt presents the culminating commission of his ISSUE residency at MITU580.
Qiujiang Levi Lu (卢秋江): 沿光苍穹 / The Ever-Reaching, Luminescent Horizon
沿光苍穹 / The Ever-Reaching, Luminescent Horizon is the culminating commission of 2025 Artist-In-Residence Qiujiang Levi Lu, joined by violinist Scott Congyu Li as Warp Duo.