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.
C. Spencer Yeh performs a solo electronic set, recorded live as part of the PAN_ACT festival in June 2013. The set starts off with a minimal percussion sound, evolving into a complex glitch beat and textural washes of electronics.
Hanna Hartman performs live at ISSUE Project Room in December 2013 as part of the third-annual Swedish Energies festival.
In Fall 2013 ISSUE celebrated its first decade with Ten Years Alive on the Infinite Plain, presenting over 60 artists representing our past, present and future self. We’ve gathered some stunning images from the 24-night series.
Select photos from our November 2013 benefit series honoring Kim Gordon, featuring performances by Body/Head, Ikue Mori, IUD, J Mascis, Jutta Koether and Tim Barnes. Photography by Sara Stadtmiller and Bradley Buehring.
Video from our November 2013 Benefit for ISSUE honoring Kim Gordon, featuring Bill Nace, J. Mascis, Jutta Koether, I.U.D., Ikue Mori and Tim Barnes. All clips by Windows Have Eyes.
The legendary Michigan trio creates harsh and hypnotic electronic landscapes, merging the frenzied energy of hardcore with the nihilistic menace of early industrial and noise. Recorded live from ISSUE's summer 2013 series at Pioneer Works.
An excerpt from No-Neck Blues Band, performing live at ISSUE as they celebrate the infamous group's 20th anniversary. Recorded in October 2013 as part of ISSUE's own anniversary festival, Ten Years Alive on the Infinite Plain.
Michelle Boulé and Okkyung Lee renew their ongoing collaboration, recorded live at ISSUE in October, 2013 as part of "Ten Years Alive on the Infinite Plain".
From October 2013, ambient icon William Basinski performs live at ISSUE Project Room, Brooklyn, as part of the organization's 10th anniversary festival "Ten Years Alive on the Infinite Plain".
Recorded live in June 2013, percussionist Eli Keszler and saxophonist Ashley Paul perform a duo as part of the PAN_ACT festival. Keszler's bowed crotales and cymbals resonate within Paul's altissimo sustains and drastic pitch bends. The split tone combinations from these instruments is surprising and overwhelming, creating continuously shifting, multi-layered harmonics and intense inner ear sound.
Poet Susan Howe and musician/composer David Grubbs perform their fourth collaboration, WOODSLIPPERCOUNTERCLATTER, recorded live at ISSUE in October 2013.
A pioneering force behind the evolution of minimalism, violinist and composer Tony Conrad's performances employ a droning, mesmerizing performance idiom of long durations, amplification, and precise pitch to explore new worlds of sound. In this recording, Conrad performs live on solo violin in celebration of ISSUE Project Room's 10th anniversary, recorded live in July 2013.
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.