Past Programs

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.

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.

ISSUE Project Room is pleased to announce the selection of multidisciplinary artist James K, improviser and composer Brandon Lopez, choreographer, writer and performer Will Rawls, and artist and experimental musician Julia Santoli as Artists-In-Residence presenting new works in the 2018 season.

ISSUE Project Room is pleased to announce the selection of Queer Trash as 2018 Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellow. Queer Trash, a curatorial platform organized by Eames Armstrong, Michael Foster, and Richard Kamerman, is a framework for queer experimental performance practices across live disciplines.

July 14th and 18th, ISSUE Project Room and Harvestworks are pleased to present two performances featuring acoustician Paul Geluso’s immersive 3D Sound Object, a speaker system capable of reproducing complex directional sound radiation.

ISSUE is thrilled to welcome back legendary Australian trio The Necks for three special performances celebrating their 30th anniversary 2/23 through 2/25. Marking their first ISSUE appearance in full form since 2010, ISSUE presents three distinct events that highlight key performance practices the trio has embarked on.

ISSUE announces the selection of Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste, Byron Westbrook, Kabir Carter, and Antenes as Artists-In-Residence presenting new works in the 2017 season. ISSUE's residency program commissions emerging NY artists to create challenging time-based works.

ISSUE Project Room is pleased to announce the selection of New York-based curator, media theorist and writer DeForrest Brown Jr. as the 2017 Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellow, who will present new projects in the 2017 season.

ISSUE is pleased to announce the Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellowship, a new initiative supporting emerging curators, launched during ISSUE’s Fall 2016 Season. Named for ISSUE’s visionary founder Suzanne Fiol, the program mentors curatorial fellows as they work to cultivate, incubate and present innovative projects.

ISSUE Project Room is pleased to announce the selection of experimental musicians Leila Bordreuil, Keith Connolly, and author/actress Cecilia Corrigan as Artists-In-Residence, to present new works in the 2016 season. ISSUE's residency program commissions emerging NY artists to create challenging time-based works.

ISSUE’s Swedish Energies Fest returns for the 5th-annual edition. Presented in collaboration with EMS and the Consulate General of Sweden in New York at Greenpoint's Saint Vitus, the series brings together a wide-ranging international lineup of visionary electronic and improvisational musicians.

A four-evening series of lectures, listening sessions, and performances explores contemporary practices and historical approaches relating to text-sound poetry, a genre of spoken word poetry emphasizing the sound of speech over textual meanings, often combined with use of new media.