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Ten Years Alive on the Infinite Plain

Ongoing Series

In Fall 2013, ISSUE celebrates its ten year anniversary with Ten Years Alive on the Infinite Plain— a two-month festival revisiting seminal past projects and initiating new relationships with emerging artists working across and between the disciplines of sound, dance, film, performance, and literature.

NY Times on Nate Wooley's "Seven Storey Mountain"

Steve Smith of The New York Times reviews the premiere of Nate Wooley's latest version of "The Seven Storey Mountain."

NY Times on Girma Yifrashewa

Steve Smith of The New York Times reviews Ethiopian pianist-composer Girma Yifrashewa's performance of his own works and Western classical repertoire.

PAN_ACT

Ongoing Series

ISSUE and Goethe-Institut present a multi-faceted series of performances, talks, and installations exploring the intersections of conceptual art in underground dance and experimental music. PAN_ACT includes a diverse array of established and emerging artists working in Berlin, London, Boston, and New York.

HPSCHD reviewed by the New York Times

The New York Times' Steve Smith calls our May 2013 production of John Cage & Lejaren Hiller's HPSCHD, "gently mediated anarchy both clamorous and glamorous."

NY Times on Keiji Haino

"It was the loudest performance of his I’ve ever seen, and one of the best. Let me phrase that in another way: One of the loudest performances by anyone I’ve seen in a long time, and one of the best."

Carol Robinson and Frances-Marie Uitti with Annie Gosfield

Carol Robinson and Frances-Marie Uitti speak with composer Annie Gosfield about their many years of collaborations. Both composers themselves, the pair have worked extensively on new works and techniques that have expanded the fields of their respective instruments through electronics.

Keiji Haino

Ongoing Series

ISSUE Project Room and the Whitney present three nights with Keiji Haino in solo and duo performances with Tamio Shiraishi and Loren Connors. One of the most legendary guitarists to come out of Japan, Keiji Haino is well known for his harsh blues-inspired guitar and torrential walls of sound with his band Fushitsusha.

AMPLIFY 2013 in the Brooklyn Rail

The Brooklyn Rail's Christopher Nelson on our January 2013 festival AMPLIFY 2013: rotation. Nelson calls a duo set by Keith Rowe and Graham Lambkin "one of the best sets in recent memory."

ISSUE announces return to its historic theater at 22 Boerum

Beginning our design process allowed us to work with engineers to identify hazards in our ceiling, which were removed during February. We are very pleased to announce that ISSUE will return to its permanent home in Downtown Brooklyn for one full year of programming, until our scheduled construction in Summer 2014.

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