In 2026, ISSUE Project Room celebrates the 20th anniversary of its Artists-in-Residence program. We’re proud to announce the 2026 Artists-in-Residence Webb Crawford, Eden Girma, and rocío sánchez, and invite audiences to join us in celebrating the next generation of boundary-pushing artists.
ISSUE Project Room is pleased to announce the selection of Isabella Thorpe-Woods as 2026 Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellow. Thorpe-Woods will present a curated series of events that explore the idea of letters as a curatorial prompt, and the ways they both fail and succeed in transmitting meaning or reaching their desired destination.
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 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.
ISSUE Project Room is pleased to announce the selection of Sami Hopkins as 2021 Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellow. Next year, Hopkins will present "Propositions from the deadWIP," a multidisciplinary performance series that balances considerations of knowledge and fallibility.
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.
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.