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.
ISSUE is pleased to stream ENDEAVORING PURITY, a new work by sound artist, producer, and DJ SYANIDE, part of the Womens Work series.
ISSUE is pleased to stream Vulnerability & Growth, an erotic short film by artist and interdisciplinary designer Crystal Peñalosa, part of the With Womens Work series.
Choreographer and performer Ayano Elson responds to a score by pioneering composer and accordionist Pauline Oliveros as a part of the With Womens Work series.
Wednesday, February 3rd at 8pm EST, ISSUE is pleased to stream sound artist crys cole’s Valid ForeverrRrrRRrrr… (pt.1), a lockdown interpretation of composer Beth Anderson’s Valid For Life.
ISSUE Project Room is pleased to announce the selection of Leyya Tawil as 2020 Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellow, presenting "NOMADIC SIGNALS," a vessel for sonic performance operating in what she refers to as the “diasporic imaginary,” a description of how sounds change in the diaspora.
ISSUE Project Room is pleased to announce the selection of writer and performer Justin Allen, vocalist, composer, and performance artist Holland Andrews, and composer and performer John McCowen, as Artists-In-Residence presenting new works in the 2020 season.
ISSUE is pleased to present With Womens Work, an online series commissioning artists to create new works inspired by scores included in Womens Work, a magazine edited and self-published by Alison Knowles and Annea Lockwood in the 1970s.
Thursday, January 28th, ISSUE and Abrons Arts Center are pleased to present a new video piece by Elysia Crampton Chuquimia, as well as the premiere of Seasons in a Quasar, a new collaborative work by Brooklyn-based vocalist and producer Embaci and South African via NYC artist Dasychira.
ISSUE Project Room is pleased to announce the selection of composer, poet, and performer JJJJJerome Ellis, sound/visual artist, improviser, and performer Austin Sley Julian, and violist Joanna Mattrey, as Artists-In-Residence presenting new works in the 2021 season.
Composer and performer John McCowen presents his third and final performance as a 2020 ISSUE Artist-In-Residence with LOW QUARTET, featuring Leila Bordreuil, Zach Rowden, & Lester St. Louis.
2020 ISSUE Artist-In-Residence Holland Andrews presents There You Are, a series of micro-performances taken place over the phone. Andrews will email a work to each participant to be played in an available speaker or sound system in their home while Andrews' then calls them to sing and speak to them.
