Media 2024

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.

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.

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.

ISSUE in partnership with Eyebeam presents 'heartsleeves,' a multifaceted, generative, and participatory web3 project by LoVid featuring a portrait of sound artist & composer Ka Baird. Plus, a conversation with the artists moderated by creative polymath, Kelly Heaton.

ISSUE and AvanTokyo are pleased to present esteemed Japanese band ASA-CHANG & Junray for their debut U.S. performance. The evening will also feature Argentinian experimental artist Alma Laprida whose creative pursuits encompass composition, improvisation, performance, installation, and radiophonic pieces.

ISSUE and AvanTokyo are pleased to present esteemed Japanese band ASA-CHANG & Junray for their debut U.S. performance. The evening will also feature Argentinian experimental artist Alma Laprida whose creative pursuits encompass composition, improvisation, performance, installation, and radiophonic pieces.

ISSUE Project Room presents Jo Andres’ short film Dreaming Out Loud (1990), with a live score by Elliott Sharp & Axine M.

ISSUE Project Room presents Jo Andres’ award-winning film Black Kites (1996), and a unique performance featuring the film’s source text based on the 1992 wartime journals of Bosnian visual artist Alma Hajric, as part of the 2024 Brooklyn Book Festival.

Highlights from a long table discussion around the public art project, Exorcism = Liberation, by Puerto Rican-born, Brooklyn-based artist and choreographer Yanira Castro. During this year’s critical American election, "I came here to weep" is but one of several slogans in the project's call-to-action.

After more than 20 years, American composer Frankie Mann will make her return to New York at the First Unitarian Congregational Society in Brooklyn to open ISSUE's Fall 2024 Season. Collaborators David Behrman, Allison Easter, Sarah Hennies and John King will join the evening.

After more than 20 years, American composer Frankie Mann will make her return to New York at the First Unitarian Congregational Society in Brooklyn to open ISSUE's Fall 2024 Season. Collaborators David Behrman, Allison Easter, Sarah Hennies and John King will join the evening.

Commemorating 10 years since the murder of Eric Garner in Staten Island, NY, ISSUE participates in a series of community activations happening across NYC sparked by The Ritual of Breath Is the Rite to Resist to contend with an important question: what does it mean to support Black life through embodied ritual?