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

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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Tatyana Tenenbaum: Garment of the Interior

Brooklyn Music School

Choreographer and composer Tatyana Tenenbaum continues her 2022 ISSUE residency with Garment of the Interior, a first public sharing of a new project that emerges from a decade of research into the continuum between voice and movement.

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Sold Out! Bergsonist: As If Reality?

CPR – Center for Performance Research

ISSUE in partnership with Harvestworks and Center for Performance Research is pleased to present As If Reality?, a new work from multi-disciplinary artist, musician, designer and 2022 ISSUE Artist-In-Residence Selwa Abd (Bergsonist).

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Member Event

ISSUE is pleased to invite Members to a reception and presentation of the first ever collaborative piece between cellist and composer Lucy Railton and intermedia artist Max Eilbacher. The installation of the commissioned collaboration will be presented at Fridman Gallery in the Lower East Side.

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Distant Pairs: James Fei & Yan Jun - 螺层 (Gyration)

Streaming on this webpage and Vimeo

ISSUE is pleased to stream a new collaboration between Oakland, California-based composer, synthesist, saxophonist and electronic musician James Fei and Chinese musician and poet Yan Jun, who is based in Beijing.

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Distant Pairs: Delia Beatriz (DEBIT) & Flora Yin Wong

Streaming on this webpage and Vimeo

ISSUE is pleased to stream the debut collaborative presentation between New York-based producer and composer Delia Beatriz (DEBIT) and London-based sound artist and writer Flora Yin Wong. This commissioned work will be the first ever collaboration between these two artists.

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Distant Pairs: Irmin Schmidt & Leah Singer

Streaming on this webpage and Vimeo

Wednesday, October 19th at 8pm ET, ISSUE is pleased to stream a new collaboration between Irmin Schmidt—legendary German pianist, conductor, composer and co-founder of experimental rock band Can—and NYC-based writer and visual artist Leah Singer.

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THE BODY POPULAR: AUDIO MEME with James T. Green, Josh Gwynn & Leila Day

39 Willoughby St, Brooklyn (at 370 Jay Street: Room 103)

2022 Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellow Theodore Kerr presents AUDIO MEME, his second program in THE BODY POPULAR series. AUDIO MEME is a project that explores the power and intimacy of podcasts to impact progressive social change.

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Sydney Spann & Michelle Luong

Ridgewood Reservoir at Highland Park

Sound artist and musician Sydney Spann continues their 2022 ISSUE residency with a live performance in collaboration with artist Michelle Luong at the Ridgewood Reservoir in Highland Park, Queens. This collaborative performance is a continuation of Spann’s curiosity about childcare, sound, and psychoanalysis.

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