Residencies + Commissions

ISSUE offers year-round opportunities for experimental artists to develop and present challenging new works through residencies and commissioning opportunities.

Upcoming

Artists-In-Residence 2025

Ongoing Series

ISSUE Project Room is pleased to announce the selection of interdisciplinary artists Qiujiang Levi Lu, Jackson-Pratt, Anna RG, and Zosha Warpeha as Artists-In-Residence presenting new works in the 2025 season. 

Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellowship 2025

Ongoing Series

ISSUE Project Room is pleased to announce the selection of Kenneth Jiménez as 2025 Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellow. The artist will present a curated series of events that engage artists from the Caribbean, Central and South America, discussing music and folklore's complex relationship to tradition and genre.

Past

ISSUE Project Room's 20th Anniversary Series

Ongoing Series

This Fall marks ISSUE Project Room’s 20th Anniversary to be celebrated with a series of commissioned programs, orbiting around our annual Gala and affiliated Benefit events. Between Friday, September 29th and Saturday, Nov 4th, ISSUE invites audiences to experience a special series of twenty limited-capacity programs including new commissions and restaging of programs specifically designed for ISSUE’s unique environment.

Sold Out! BINT: Solve et Coagula → عيب, Stage II: تبييض (The Whitening)

CPR – Center for Performance Research

Interdisciplinary artist and musician BINT presents her second program as an ISSUE Artist-In-Residence. This next iteration of "عيب:Solve et Coagula" will be co-presented at CPR – Center for Performance Research in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Over the course of the year, she will be presenting three commissioned programs mirroring the primary stages of (Arabic) alchemical transmutation.

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Sold Out! Everything Must Go! Cal Fish & More Eaze

140 2nd Ave., #503

2023 Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellow evil dentist (Alice Gerlach and David Farrow) present “everything must go!,” a durational office space performance featuring performances by Cal Fish and More Eaze.

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Stuck At The Office: Kate Mohanty & FRANK/ie CONSENT

NYU Brooklyn: 370 Jay 5th Fl

2023 Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellow evil dentist (Alice Gerlach and David Farrow) present “stuck at the office,” a durational office space installation featuring performances by Kate Mohanty & FRANK/ie CONSENT.

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BINT: Solve et Coagula → عيب, Stage I: تسويد (The Blackening)

MITU580

Interdisciplinary artist and musician BINT presents their first program as an ISSUE Artist-In-Residence at MITU580 in Gowanus, Brooklyn. Over the course of the year, she will be presenting three commissioned programs mirroring the primary stages of (Arabic) alchemical transmutation.

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Artists-In-Residence 2023

Ongoing Series

ISSUE Project Room is pleased to announce the selection of interdisciplinary artists BINT, Jean Carla Rodea, and Keke Hunt as Artists-In-Residence presenting new works in the 2023 season.

THE BODY POPULAR: I, OF COURSE, WAS LIVID

The Mark O'Donnell Theater at the Entertainment Community Fund Arts Center

2022 Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellow Theodore Kerr + Housing Works & What Would an HIV Doula Do?, present I, OF COURSE, WAS LIVID. The performance features testimony that women living with HIV provided the CDC as part of the activism done to pressure the US government to create a more inclusive definition of AIDs.

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Sydney Spann & Kiera Mulhern

MITU580

Sound artist and musician Sydney Spann presents their final presentation as an ISSUE Artist-In-Residence with a live performance alongside poet and musician Kiera Mulhern at MITU580 in Gowanus, Brooklyn

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Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellowship 2023

Ongoing Series

ISSUE Project Room is pleased to announce the selection of evil dentist (Alice Gerlach and David Farrow) as 2023 Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellow. Next year, the duo will present Corporate Retreat, a curated series of performances appropriating the banality of office space.

Dion TYGAPAW McKenzie: Devil Woman (Obeah Woman) Part 3

The Queens Museum

Saturday, November 12th at 8pm ET, at The Queens Museum, Dion TYGAPAW McKenzie presents their third and final work in progress presentation of Devil Woman (Obeah Woman). The piece is an opera in three parts developed as a 2022 ISSUE Artist-In-Residence.

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