Media 2026

Matt Mottel: The Image Is a Seed

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.

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.

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.

Taraka

Taraka (member of Prince Rama, 2011 AIR) returns to share “campfire songs” as a potential antidote to post-digital isolation.

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.

MV Carbon

ISSUE presents a two-part evening featuring interdisciplinary artists MV Carbon (2010 AIR) and Keke Hunt (2023 AIR). 

Keke Hunt

ISSUE presents a two-part evening featuring interdisciplinary artists MV Carbon (2010 AIR) and Keke Hunt (2023 AIR).