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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?

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?

ISSUE is pleased to present the next stage of Surge: Contour Theater (previously "Performance #2"), the second commission from 2024 Artist-In-Residence Joni.

ISSUE presents the second commission from 2024 ISSUE Artist-In-Residence Katie Porter. Devoted to collaboration, the evening at Brooklyn Music School features experimental musicians Nomi Epstein, Jennie Gottschalk, Teodora Stepančić, and media artist Claudia Schmitz.

This Summer, ISSUE’s 22 Boerum Pl. theater provides an ideal laboratory for experimentation, where the audience can experience projects in-process. 2018 Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellow (SFCF) and collective Queer Trash present the next evolution of their Symposium series featuring experimental artists David Grollman, M. Lamar, and Qiujiang Levi Lu.

ISSUE presents pioneering French composer of electroacoustic music, Michèle Bokanowski, for her East Coast debut at Brooklyn Music School. The evening will also feature two new works by composer Paula Matthusen that includes improvisations with Elliott Sharp, Matthew Evan Taylor, and video by Tom Snelgrove.

Holland Andrews (2020 ISSUE Artist-In-Residence) returns to the 22 Boerum Pl. theater with Portland-based sound artists Methods Body to present solo performances, plus the world premiere of their collaboration, REMAIN.