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.
Using a medley of instruments from children's hand bells to found objects, The Ashcan Orchestra led by composer/performer Pat Spadine perform live at an ISSUE show in November 2012. The D.I.Y. ensemble adopts ideas of grander ends from humble beginnings.
In celebration of her recently back in print novels "Speedboat" and "Pitch Dark", author Renata Adler reads from both works at 155 Freeman St as part of ISSUE Project Room's Littoral reading series in April 2013.
Tony Conrad performs a solo improvisation on violin in anticipation of ISSUE Project Room's "Ten Years Alive on the Infinite Plain" anniversary festival.
Philosopher, artist, and avant-garde composer Henry Flynt joins WKCR's Tommy McCutchon and Lawrence Kumpf to discuss and listen to rare and never before heard selections from his diverse body of work, as well as his participation in PAN_ACT.
Recorded live in September 2012, this concert of solo and duo sets by Nate Wooley and Lebanon's Mazen Kerbaj reimagines the physical boundaries of the trumpet— combining vocalization, extreme extended technique, noise and drone aesthetics, amplification and feedback, and compositional rigor.
Recorded on June 13th, 2013, video of a duo performance by celebrated singer-songwriter Josephine Foster with her husband and collaborator, guitarist Victor Herrero at Issue Project Room.
HPSCHD, John Cage and Lejaren HIller’s legendary Gesamtkunstwerk is a mass media orgy, considered by many as the wildest, largest, and loudest musical composition of the 20th century. In this conversation, Clocktower Radio's David Weinstein hosts three participants in ISSUE's 2013 restaging in New York: Nick Hallett, Bradley Eros, and Joel Chadabe, along with Cage specialist/composer Ron Kuivila.
A performance by Frances-Marie Uitti, cello virtuoso, innovator, and champion of new and experimental music, recorded live at ISSUE in February 2011. The recital features compositions dedicated to Uitti by Rocco Di Pietro, Annie Gosfield, and György Kurtág, as well as one of her own multiphonic works.
Hunter Hunt-Hendrix kicks off his residency in a duo performance as Liturgy with Bernhard Gann. Eruptions of distorted guitar and industrial-like discharges of noise that accelerate, decelerate and explode in and out of sync with the back beat. Apocalyptic and ethereal.
On February 20th, ISSUE Project Room held its first ever Art Lottery at 3 Legged Dog in lower Manhattan, a benefit party to support our ongoing presentation pioneering performance works.
Drawing on Indian music, Minimalism, and the outsider tradition of instrument building composers, Che Chen and Sherlock Terry‘s collaborative work is rooted in the sonic potential contained within a single note. This work was created as part of ISSUE's Emerging Artist Commission program, and premiered September 8th 2012.
Harmoniumist/electronicist Jaime Fennelly performs with choreographer Miguel Gutierrez in a reunion of their long-time collaboration. Fennelly bends slowly-building, repetitive melodies into massive sonic mountains.
In May 2012, ISSUE presented a rare live performance by Klyd and Linda Watkins of Poetry Out Loud— a 70s era audio magazine of oral poetry and word-as-sound art— with guests Tom Carter, Keith Connolly and Dave Nuss.
2012 has been an incredible year for ISSUE Project Room! Our photographer Bradley Buerhing has captured some incredible moments this year, which included over 100 performances at our new home in Downtown Brooklyn and beyond. To celebrate the close of 2012, we've gathered 18 of our favorite photos from the year.