Issue Project Room

Name: Issue Project Room
Address: 22 Boerum Place, New York, NY, 11201, US
Telephone: +17183300313
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Issue Project Room Pioneering performance center based in Downtown Brooklyn
http://issueprojectroom.org/events

ists working across the disciplines of music, sound, dance, performance and literature. Programming places a special focus on bringing recognition to artists whose important contributions to the creative field have been underrecognized, often as a result of gender, sexuality, or geographic location. Through the cultivation of innovative new work, ISSUE performs an essential research and development function that stimulates a constant influx of ideas into the local, national, and international creative landscape.

03/12/2025

screens With Womens Work tonight & tomorrow at 8pm!

MARCH 12, 2025:
Audrey Chen
Sydney Spann , 𝒜𝓉𝓉𝒶𝒸𝒽𝑒𝒹 𝑜𝓇 𝒟𝑒𝓉𝒶𝒸𝒽𝑒𝒹 (𝓅𝒶𝓇𝓉𝒾𝒶𝓁 𝒹𝒾𝓈𝒶𝓅𝓅𝑒𝒶𝓇𝒶𝓃𝒸𝑒)
Annabelle Playe , 𝒜𝒹 𝒜𝓈𝓉𝓇𝒶
crys cole , 𝒱𝒶𝓁𝒾𝒹 𝐹𝑜𝓇𝑒𝓋𝑒𝓇𝓇𝑅𝓇𝓇𝑅𝑅𝓇𝓇𝓇…(𝓅𝓉. 𝟣)

MARCH 13, 2025:
Maayan Tsadka , 𝒮𝑜𝓃𝒾𝒸 𝐵𝑜𝓉𝒶𝓃𝓎: 𝑅𝒜’𝒜𝒮𝐻 𝒜𝒟𝒜𝑀𝒜 (𝑒𝒶𝓇𝓉𝒽𝓃𝑜𝒾𝓈𝑒)
Annea Lockwood, 𝒫𝒾𝒶𝓃𝑜 𝐵𝓊𝓇𝓃𝒾𝓃𝑔

03/11/2025

ISSUE continues to activate the 22 Boerum Pl. theater this April with new commissions, premieres, and celebrations! Tickets on sale now, link in bio:

🏠 4/9 Member Event: Val Jeanty (): Resonant Ritual
🏠 4/19 Eucademix () & azumi O E ()
🏠 4/24 Anna RG (): AIR CHANGE PER HOUR
🏠 4/30 Sarah Hennies () & Tristan Kasten-Krause (): The Quiet Sun LP Release

02/13/2025

In 2021, ISSUE created the With Womens Work Series. It engaged fifteen artists to create new works inspired by performance scores included in Womens Work, a magazine edited and self-published by Alison Knowles and Annea Lockwood in 1975 NYC.

⏩ Between March 20-22, we will present new, live performance scores at the 22 Boerum Pl. theater as part of ongoing activations of the With Womens Work Series featuring Sydney Spann, Audrey Chen, Annabelle Playe, crys cole, Maayan Tsadka, Annea Lockwood & Beth Anderson.

The archive is not neutral. At ISSUE, we strive to help artists expose and redress the historical record and structures of power relating to s*x and gender. The ongoing With Womens Work Series aims to continuously activate and grow the accounts of women’s experiences and practices in the canon, while honoring the legacy of artists who have built and contributed to it over the years.

And special thanks to for kicking us off with screenings of these artists’ work on March 12 & 13!

02/06/2025

Coming up this March at ISSUE Project Room 🌙🧚‍♀️✨

On March 6, 2025 Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellow Kenneth Jiménez's first program "Dormir, Enlaces" is at 22 Boerum Pl. Exploring the potentiality of sound through dreaming in his practice, Costa Rican photographer Emiliano Zúñiga Hernández will provide the groundwork for improvisation by interdisciplinary artist and vocalist isabel crespo pardo, percussionist Daniel Prim, and guitarist Drew Wesely.

On March 12 & 13, ISSUE & Anthology Film Archives present projections of work commissioned for ISSUE’s With Womens Work Series (2021). These showings will take place at AFA in advance of live performances and associated activities at Boerum centered around the series to be announced next week 👀

01/15/2025

Upcoming February programs will take place at 22 Boerum Pl. We are fortunate to have access to our home theater through Spring 2025 with increased capacity due to a temporary permit. ISSUE looks forward to welcoming the public back to the theater, and is invested in community participation to ensure the building reflects the diverse needs and priorities of our artists, audiences and staff.

Just Announced!
🏠 2/6 Leila Hassan / Bergsonist
🏠 2/15 Jackson-Pratt: The Microscope's Slide: Live Painting Music No. 8 (for T.M.)
🏠 2/21 Qiujiang Levi Lu (卢秋江): Metanoia
🏠 2/27 Zosha Warpeha: Shadow

Doors 7:30pm
Events 8pm

01/13/2025

"The future does not lie ahead but is behind us, something we carry." –Rafael Lubner for Bellona Mag on Chuquimamani-Condori

Thanks to all those who joined us last month for our Season Close concert with Embaci and CM-C at the church. We will carry it with us❣️ Upcoming 2025 programs announced soon! See you next weekend at Brooklyn Music School - free with RSVP.

📸 by Cameron Kelly McLeod

01/02/2025

Happy New Year from ISSUE! 🥂

Wanted to start the year by sending a huge 'thank you' to everyone who participated in our year-end campaign. Your support is vital to our mission, and it’s because of you that we can continue to present the groundbreaking work of experimental, risk-taking artists. See you in the new season!

[s/o all of our SFCF past and present - (pictured): Richard Kamerman of Q***r Trash, Sami Hopkins, Kenneth Jimenez & Theodore (ted) Kerr]

12/23/2024

Some favorite 2024 ISSUE Artists-In-Residence snapshots 🤳🏽

And many thanks to

12/18/2024

Don’t miss out: catch up on this year’s incredible programs anytime with our free online archive. Link in bio!

[Slide 1&2 - ASA-CHANG & Junray soundsystem. Alma Laprida playing her custom tromba marina. 📸 by Aaron Rosenblum. Oct 23, 2024.
Slide 3 - heartsleeves artist talk with LoVid & Ka Baird moderated by Kelly Heaton. 📸 by Aaron Rosenblum. Oct 30, 2024.
Slide 4 - ISSUE’s Fall Opening with Frankie Mann. 📸 by Cameron Kelly McLeod. Sep 7, 2024.
Slide 5 - 🟥 Exorcism = Liberation Long Table. 📸 by Noele Contreras. Sep 21, 2024.
Slide 6 - New Release! Henry Flynt’s Everlovin’ Game On remastered by Bob Bellerue, 2019/2024.]

12/12/2024

📣 ISSUE Project Room’s 2025 Winter Season Opening concert co-presented with Brooklyn Music School brings together Ethiopian-born Swedish experimental vocalist Sofia Jernberg and American composer-cellist Tomeka Reid .

Building on their first collaboration in 2021–Meditations for Voice & Cello, a digital commission for ISSUE’s Distant Pairs series–the duo reunites for their first-ever live collaboration in the US. The season opening event will also feature Jernberg and Reid in a unique quartet, joined by NYC-based pianist Craig Taborn and Norwegian bassist Ole Morten Vågan . Free with RSVP - tickets at link in bio.

All ISSUE Members will receive two (2) free drink tickets to redeem at the 2025 Winter Opening concert. Please sign up as an ISSUE Member any time before the event to access this and other membership perks!

12/05/2024

ISSUE is pleased to announce 2025 Artists-In-Residence!
lu1 (卢秋江) is a NYC-based performance artist, improviser, composer, and educator. Their work transforms the body into a sonic object through interactions with movements and audio technology exploring identity, sound, and space. Lu designs customized feedback systems with cyborg-like body augmentations inspired by Objectophilia/animism. Their works have been featured at international festivals and venues such as MATA Festival, High Zero Festival, IRCAM Forum, SEAMUS conference, E-Flux, and NIME conference. 📸 by Aijia Yao

is a multimedia artist based in Queens. Over the last decade, Seany (under the moniker Jackson-Pratt) has honed a body of work focused on highly dynamic, saturation-based audio. He also creates large-scale paintings and visual works that coincide with audio performance. His current focus is to draw an obtainable line between extreme audio/sound/music works, (albeit noise or otherwise) and the visual language. 📸 by Walter Wlodarczyk

works in composition, sculpture, community organizing, towards possibilities of Sick Music making and listening. For a decade, she toured with her research-based ballad project, Anna & Elizabeth, their 2018 Smithsonian Folkways album called a “radical expansion of what folk songs are supposed to do”(The New Yorker). She is a member of RAMPD (Recording Artists and Music Professionals with Disabilities), and cofounder of AIRNYC (Artists In Resistance NYC) which operates a free lending library of air purifiers. 📸 close up, self-portrait of Anna laying in bed

is a composer-performer working in a meditative space at the intersection of contemporary improvisation and folk traditions. Using bowed stringed instruments alongside her own voice, her long-form compositions and freely improvised performances explore transformations of time and tonality. She performs primarily on Hardanger d’amore, a sympathetic-stringed relative of the Norwegian Hardanger fiddle, and her current work is heavily informed by the cyclical forms, rhythmic elasticity, and the physical momentum of Nordic folk music. 📸 by Kenneth Jiménez

11/24/2024

Happy Birthday ❤️

Yvonne Rainer’s ‘Remembering and Dismembering Trio A’ with Brittany Bailey at with ISSUE, April 6, 2022.

11/16/2024

Yesterday, the ISSUE Project Room Board responded to the open letter in circulation. https://issueprojectroom.org/2024-
board-letter

11/06/2024

🗣️ JUST ANNOUNCED: ISSUE DECEMBER PROGRAMS

12/6 CONTROL SCHEME 👀 by Axine M
(2024 ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE) at The Emily Harvey Foundation
Limited Capacity! Free with RSVP

12/14 CHUQUIMAMANI-CONDORI / Embaci
at First Unitarian Congregational Society in Brooklyn
(a homecoming🪴)

10/17/2024

Just announced: November Programs with ISSUE Artists-In-Residence Kwami Winfield, Joni and Katie Porter. FREE!

ISSUE and Harvestworks are pleased to present Up, within a subset (11/7). Using audio reactive instruments built by Kwami Winfield, the artist will generate and influence sound and light across the reverberant cavern at 22 Boerum Pl. As a participatory experiment, Winfield invites the audience to BYOI (bring-your-own-instrument of any kind)!

Co-presented by ISSUE and Irondale, Joni’s Surge (11/15) project builds to its conclusion. Reworking recordings taken during surgeries by her doctors - per her request - Joni reinterprets the material to create an entirely new “body” of sound.

The composer/clarinetist Katie Porter will return to the organization’s 22 Boerum Pl. theater to present Collaborations ex-situ (11/23), three ongoing collaborations with artists Patricia Alessandrini (electronics, thunder sheet, feedback boxes), Katherine Liberovskaya (live video), and anne penders (voice, text, film). Ex-situ is the idea of an experiment happening off-site, out of its original place and time - just as each of these collaborations took root due to different chance meetings.

10/15/2024

Don’t miss this✨Wednesday, October 23rd at 8pm, ISSUE and are pleased to present esteemed Japanese band ASA-CHANG & Junray .info for their debut U.S. performance at The Invisible Dog Art Center. Drawing on material from the project’s entire discography, they perform as a trio: ASA-CHANG (percussion), Yoshihiro Goseki (saxophone, flute), Sena Oshima (violin), and the “Junray Tronics” soundsystem.

In the early 2000s, his group was met with worldwide acclaim from the success of debut international album Tsu Gi Ne Pu and the single “Hana,” a revelry of tabla, overlapping vocals, strings, and electronic elaborations that stands as an achievement of early-aughts innovation between pop and avant-garde sensibilities.

The evening will also feature Argentinian artist Alma Laprida . Using a custom made two-string marine trumpet, voice, and electronic processing the ‘tromba marina’ will be amplified by a self-made contact mic and then processed by pedals. Laprida will also feature elements from her work “Japan,” an electronic piece created for B***A (analogic sounding circuit by Jorge Crowe) commissioned by The Toy Lab.

Slide 1: MV still from “Hana”
Slide 2: Alma Laprida by Estafania Landesmann

10/05/2024

Remembering Suzanne today (1960-2009) 💙💚

10/03/2024

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.

Jiménez notes, "Historically, New York has been characterized by hosting people from all over the world. This process has generated the creation of identities that seek to define themselves again and again, mixing social imaginaries, cultural contexts and life stories loaded with endless complexities." Throughout 2025, his goal is to present different artists whose work has been historically marginalized by the art world, and create opportunities for them to share their most recent explorations and collaborations.

Named for ISSUE’s visionary founder Suzanne Fiol, the program mentors a Curatorial Fellow by providing them with financial, technical and marketing support. Through a commitment to the professional development of the selected curator, they work to cultivate, incubate and present innovative music and performance projects.

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In 2021 amidst the pandemic, With Womens Work premiered online in disparate home screen and sound system arrangements. Now, ISSUE and Anthology join forces for two evenings to present the works back-to-back in a cinematic environment, showcasing the varied compositional structures, cinematic orientations, and unique approaches to the “audiovisual” demands of our current age. Later in March, ISSUE will present new, live performance scores at the 22 Boerum Pl. theater. For more information on the entire series, visit issueprojectroom.org!

La luz parpadea al final del día en esa caída de lo que parecía coherente Quiero que, esta vez, el cansancio me incline poco a poco y que se escurran todas las ficciones que hablé durante la vigilia Quiero conocer, de repente, la casa de todo lo que amo. —Emiliano Zúñiga Hernández Coming up on March 6th, 2025 Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellow @knthjimenez brings the work of Costa Rican photographer @emilianozunigah to ISSUE for his NYC debut with live music score by @oh.iiisa @danielprim @drwesely💭Tickets in bio!

Tomorrow at 8pm, Boerum transforms into the red, mylar body of @levi.lu1 for their first residency performance, METANOIA. Walk-ups are welcome! Or to access the waitlist for this free event, DM us or email [email protected] 🎟️

If you want to know what live painting music is, reserve your ticket to 2025 Artist-In-Residence Jackson-Pratt’s (@dogwaste) first commission for ISSUE “The Microscope’s Slide: Live Painting Music No. 8 (for T.M.)” this Saturday - free with RSVP! ❣️ 📹 clip by Katy Mongeau

For over 20 years, ISSUE’s community has been a home to the work of artists, performers, and musicians who elude expectation. As we look to 2025, your engagement remains as vital as ever. Your generosity has fueled incredible impact this year - here’s a look back at the work you made possible! #thankyou #giveback #makeanimpact #givingtuesday2024

This Saturday! @kpkatieclarinet Katie Porter’s final ISSUE residency event - inspired by Nancy Holt’s large-scale Sun Tunnels installation - leaves us to consider “how we make our art in our lives, in our minds, in our pasts, and in the tumultuous present.” Limited Capacity Remains! Free with RSVP 8pm at 22 Boerum Pl. featuring @patricia.alessandrini @kat_liberovskaya @_poien_ 📹: Clip from Collecting Rocks From The Places We’ve Been - Music In Time & Space by Katie Porter with Nomi Epstein, Jennie Gottschalk & Teodora Stepančić, June 18, 2024. Moving Image and Live Drawings on sculpture by Claudia Schmitz. Thanks to @_nightshiftnurse_ @kihclavok @megmcdermott_phototography

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✨ @wakingstephanie @lbergyberg @mimilgab @lenaengelstein

🚨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. Thanks @_nightshiftnurse_ @kihclavok @megmcdermott_phototography

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! 📹 clips 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.

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ISSUE Project Room is a pioneering performance center, presenting projects by both emerging and established experimental artists that expand the boundaries of artistic practice and stimulate critical dialogue about art and culture in the broader community. ISSUE plays a vital role in NYC’s cultural ecology, facilitating the commission and premiere of new works and presenting a diverse array of artists working across the disciplines of music, sound, dance, performance and literature. Programming places a special focus on bringing recognition to artists whose important contributions to the creative field have been underrecognized, often as a result of gender, s*xuality, or geographic location. Through the cultivation of innovative new work, ISSUE performs an essential research and development function that stimulates a constant influx of ideas into the local, national, and international creative landscape.

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