Today! ISSUE celebrates experimental performance and honors Jo Andres at our 2024 Gala.
This year’s Gala is co-curated by Laurie Berg, and recognizes Jo on the heels of “Jo Andres: Before Your Eyes” - a solo exhibition spanning 40 years, presented by SPRING/BREAK Art Show. Promoting the first expansive exhibition of the artist’s work, check out this clip from ISSUE’S co-presentation of the Liquid TV salon this past May✨
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🚨New 2024 Media! Now Online🚨
This season’s archive update captures the impact of deep collaboration. You can revisit presentations from this year so far, and look forward to upcoming events during our 2024 Fall Season.
New and renewing ISSUE Members receive a free ticket to our Fall Opening concert on September 7th. Members also get free access to Yanira Castro’s Exorcism = Liberation and heartsleeves: LoVid & Ka Baird at 22 Boerum Pl. by using your unique Member code at checkout.
📹 clip from Paula Matthusen at Brooklyn Music School with Elliott Sharp, Matthew Evan Taylor & video by Tom Snelgrove. May 16, 2024.
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In advance of ISSUE’s Fall Opening concert next month with pioneering composer Frankie Mann, @roulette_intermedium shared this RTV episode with us to celebrate her return to NYC! The composer last performed I Land at Roulette in 2000 (digitally released in 2010). Noted for the humorous social commentaries of her live electronic and computer music (eg. “I Was a Hero” from The Mayan Debutante Revue, and “How To Be Very Very Popular”), Mann is a skilled programmer who has built her own electronic performance instruments since high school. She began her career in the 1970s when the shift from analog to digital technologies was quickly evolving, requiring her to (quite literally) write her way into the male dominated history of electronic music composition.
Please join us on September 7th at First Unitarian to welcome Frankie Mann alongside Sarah Hennies, David Behrman, Allison Easter & John King for the premiere of Descent. Join as an ISSUE Member during our Summer Membership Campaign to receive a free ticket to the event 🎟️🎟️🎟️
The full RTV episode featuring performances of I Land and The Brown Mountain Lights is available at roulette.org.
~Free~ Next Week! ISSUE is pleased to present the next stage of 2024 AIR @joni.c0m Joni’s Surge project. “Contour Theater” delves into the dramatics of music in a body-organ-surgeon produced harmony. Join the operating theater at @brooklynmusicschool on June 27th 🩺
📹: from her first residency presentation “Surge: Intricate Things and Dangerous Tools,” full video now available in the online archive. Courtesy of ISSUE Project Room, @_nightshiftnurse_@kihclavok @megmcdermott_phototography
Coming up next week: realized through graphic scores and chance phenomena, 2024 ISSUE AIR @kpkatieclarinet Katie Porter’s second commission continues to ruminate on our ability to perceive change. All June programs are Free with RSVP!
📹: from her first residency presentation “Malosma” with Christine Tavolacci (@leflute), full video available in the online archive. Thanks to @_nightshiftnurse_ @kihclavok @megmcdermott_phototography
A variety of programs were presented in the Spring, each uniquely embodying the theme “thoughtful studies of connection” (from 𝘙𝘌𝘔𝘈𝘐𝘕 by Holland Andrews & Methods Body, April 17, 2024). How do the artists at ISSUE connect to compositional ideas (Christian Wolff & String Noise Sounds), nature and culture (Avant Joik), storytelling and magic (Francesco Cavaliere), and more?
Check out the full videos in ISSUE’s online archive for a glimpse, with more Spring performances to be added soon!
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1 - Celebrating 90 Years: Christian Wolff
2 - Avant Joik
3 - Francesco Cavaliere: Abyssal Creatures - Body0 Xilema
4 - Holland Andrews & Methods Body
Courtesy of ISSUE Project Room. Videography by Yiyang Cao @_nightshiftnurse_. Audio recorded & mixed by Jackson Kovalchik @kihclavok. Video editing by Meg McDermott @megmcdermott_phototography.
Tomorrow! ISSUE is pleased to present the world premiere of REMAIN, a thoughtful study of connection, grief, joy and catharsis developed by vocalist and composer Holland Andrews (2020 ISSUE AIR), with Portland-based sound artists Methods Body (John Niekrasz & Luke Wyland). The piece serves as a living development of their work SPEECHLESS (2022), created for Beacon Sound's forthcoming compilation supporting Palestinian liberation. Andrews’ residency was interrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, so this occasion marks their return to the ISSUE theater for the first time since their initial residency performance in February 2020.
The evening will consist of solo performances by both Methods Body and Andrews, concluding with a collaborative set. Believing that improvisation is an act of love and trust, the artists explore these emotional themes in their collaboration. This limited capacity event at 22 Boerum Pl. is *Free for ISSUE Members* with RSVP, pending availability. Limited Tickets Remain!
📹: clip of Holland Andrews in collaboration with JJJJJerome Ellis (2021 ISSUE AIR) at Weeksville Heritage Center. Sep 18, 2021. Full video available in the ISSUE archive.
Now Available! Visit ISSUE’s free online media archive to check out some of our most recent 2024 Winter Season events:
https://issueprojectroom.org/media
📹: Video: Hiromichi Sakamoto at Brooklyn Music School. Feb 2, 2024. @bmsbrooklyn @avantokyo
Clip from our 2024 Winter Opening with Negativland & SUE-C premiering their work WE CAN REALLY FEEL LIKE WE’RE HERE - upcoming Spring tour just announced! Online ISSUE archive update featuring more Winter performances coming soon 👀 @negativlandland @sue_c
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Clips from ISSUE’s 20th Anniversary season close performance, “An Improvisational Symphony” coordinated by our longtime friend Suzanne Langille. Full video is now available in our free online archive✨
Videography by Yiyang Cao. Audio recorded & mixed by Jackson Kovalchik. Video editing by Meg McDermott. December 16, 2023.
Looking back on a Fall highlight from our season opener with BEAM SPLITTER! View more of the 2023 archive at issueprojectroom.org/media 🙌 🎉
ISSUE’s 20th Anniversary Season has been an enormous milestone. At this time of year, we ask our community to assist us in supporting artists as we launch into our new season and the next 20 years!
During this time, when support for the arts faces unprecedented challenges, we are looking to our community to help sustain ISSUE as a center for the periphery in experimental practice and performance.
Please consider making a donation of any amount within your capacity. We thank you for your participation!