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.

Hiroyuki Ito for The New York Times

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.

Michael Pisaro and Keith Rowe. Photo: Yuko Zama.

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.

Toni Dove: Lucid Possession

Co-produced by Issue Project Room, HERE and Roulette, Lucid Possession will premiere April 25-27th at Roulette. One of the pioneers of interactive cinema, Toni Dove creates hybrid performance, installation and screen-based art that fuses film, game or instrument based interaction, and experimental theater.