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 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.
The 9th AMPLIFY series, presented with Erstwhile Records, Fridman Gallery and Shared Shapes, features three duo sets each night with performers Olivia Block, Maria Chavez, Anne Guthrie, Devin DiSanto, Kevin Drumm, Graham Lambkin, Jason Lescalleet, Sean Meehan, Ben Owen, Michael Pisaro, Vanessa Rossetto, and Taku Unami.
Yarn/Wire/Currents is an ongoing collaboration with piano and percussion ensemble Yarn/Wire, inaugurated in 2013. The series serves as an incubator for new experimental music, programs explore the intersections of composition, technology, installation, live performance, music theater, and more.
A three-day series in collaboration with the Whitney Museum celebrates fifty years of David Rosenboom’s pioneering contributions to American experimental music. A composer, performer, conductor, interdisciplinary artist, author and educator, Rosenboom presents many of his major works, from 1964 to the present.
ISSUE is pleased to announce the return of Iceland's acclaimed Tectonics Festival for the second-annual NY edition, presented by ISSUE over three evenings at Abrons Art Center and The First Unitarian Church, Brooklyn. Tectonics provides a rare forum for critical consideration of new developments in composition.
ISSUE is pleased to announce the selection of our 2015 Artists-in-Residence: Lea Bertucci, Kim Brandt, Dawn Kasper, Mariana Valencia, Evan Calder Williams, and C. Spencer Yeh will premiere new commissions in 2015.
The fourth-annual Swedish Energies celebrates 50 years of Stockholm's EMS with Maria w Horn, Ellen Arkbro, Jenny Sunesson, The Sons of God, Stephen O’Malley, Kristina Matousch, Frederikke Hoffmeier, Carl Michael von Hausswolff, Daniel Rozenhall & Sten Backman, Christine Abdelnour & Joachim Nordwall, & more.
A 2-night spotlight on Graham Lambkin's Kye label features Call Back the Giants, Malcolm Goldstein, Matt Krefting, Vanessa Rossetto, James Rushford and Lambkin— who also presents a tape work by Henning Christiansen. Performances weave together concepts from the sonic and visual arts, as well as sounds of the everyday.