ISSUE offers year-round opportunities for experimental artists to develop and present challenging new works through residencies and commissioning opportunities.
ISSUE and Time Based are pleased to stream a new collaboration between composer Oleksii Podat and Suzanne Thorpe as part of ongoing activations of the Distant Pairs Series. Throughout May 2025, ISSUE and Time Based will co-present three digital commissions uniting artists based in Kyiv and New York.
ISSUE and Time Based are pleased to stream a new collaboration between multi-instrumentalist Eden Girma and film composer Maryana Klochko as part of ongoing activations of the Distant Pairs Series. Throughout May 2025, ISSUE and Time Based will co-present three digital commissions uniting artists based in Kyiv and New York.
Saturday, May 10th, at 8pm ISSUE hosts a live conversation between NYC-based Distant Pairs artists Eden Girma, Madison Greenstone & Suzanne Thorpe at the 22 Boerum Pl. theater.
ISSUE and Time Based are pleased to stream a new collaboration between musician Madison Greenstone and installation artist Anton Saenko as part of ongoing activations of the Distant Pairs Series. Throughout May 2025, ISSUE and Time Based will co-present three digital commissions uniting artists based in Kyiv and New York.
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.
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.
Rena Anakwe continues her residency with Fast Forward to Silence, an immersive sound and body collage that honors the air around us. Focusing on sequences shifting between the minute and the rigorous, the piece explores the duality that air possesses through a duet with Jonathan González + lighting from Kelley Shih.
Lindsay Packer premieres DEPTH OF FIELD, her first commissioned work as an ISSUE Artist-In-Residence. Collaborating with dancer and choreographer Melanie Maar, the artists use light, color, repetition, movement & the reverberations that emanate from their movements to define and redefine the space around them.
ISSUE Project Room is pleased to announce the selection of musician Charmaine Lee, multimedia artist Ying Liu, interdisciplinary performer Rena Anakwe, and light and color improviser Lindsay Packer, as Artists-In-Residence presenting new works in the 2019 season.
For her inaugural residency performance, 2019 Artist-In-Residence Charmaine Lee premieres “Laminals,” the first of three movements of a new long-form piece for solo voice. The program is paired with an improvised trio performance featuring id m theft able (voice, objects) and Andrea Pensado (voice, electronics).
Rena Anakwe opens her 2019 residency with “The Cosmology of Water,” an immersive ritual that contemplates the pluralities that water holds as a molecular component of life, as a sacred space, and, at times, a site of destruction. Anakwe submerses attendees into a world of sound, scent, movement, lighting+projections.
2019 Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellow Benedict Nguyen curates revolutionary new moon in aquarius (rnma), featuring Ambika Raina, Katrina Reid & lily bo shapiro. The evening is their first program in soft bodies in hard places, a series of trans-disciplinary events circling planetary events over the 2019 season.
ISSUE Project Room is pleased to announce the selection of Benedict Nguyen as 2019 Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellow, presenting "soft bodies in hard places," a series of trans-disciplinary events circling planetary events over the 2019 season.
James K’s residency culminates with American Womin, a convergence of distinct personas existing across her work. James K debuts the personas as a multimedia live set, presenting them within an overlapping practice spanning voice, modular synthesis, live instrumentation, sampling alchemy, movement & video.
Julia Santoli presents the third and final work of her 2018 ISSUE residency with the premiere of a new work within her “Siren Sore” cycle: a mutant project of myriad form manifesting as visual project, recording album, and live performance through genre-crossing collaborations.
Will Rawls takes the multifarious figure of the cursor as a guideline to investigate his work that encompasses dance, writing, voice and objects. In this final research showing, Rawls speculates upon the cursor as a kind of body, describing the ephemeral unit as “an abstract protagonist, a messenger in crisis.”
Improviser, composer, and multi-instrumentalist Brandon Lopez presents Malediction, his third and final piece as a 2018 ISSUE Artist-In-Residence, for four players (Michael Foster on Saxophones, Nina Dante voice, Lucie Vítková on accordian and objects, and Lopez himself).
ISSUE is pleased to open Regenerative Feedback: On Listening And Its Emancipatory Potential, a three day symposium of talks, presentations, discourse, and performances centered around biological, social, political and cognitive negotiations in music.