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Friday, July 10th at 8pm, ISSUE presents “Spiriting Off,” a new solo work by 2026 Artist-In-Residence and luthier Webb Crawford (@webbkaycrawford) for electric guitar, tenor banjo, and five-string banjo. Free with RSVP!

Crawford notes, “Playing multiple instruments, or ‘doubling’, is a crucial aspect of musicianship: the transplantation of gestures and phrasing onto new intervals, shapes, timbres, and tonalities.”

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At 6:30pm and 8:30pm on Wednesday, July 1st, Isabella Thorpe-Woods (@bellathorpewoods) presents 𝑬𝒏𝒗𝒆𝒍𝒐𝒑/𝒆, her second program as ISSUE’s 2026 Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellow. Over the course of her fellowship, the artist will share a series of events that explore letters as a curatorial prompt, and the ways they both fail and succeed in transmitting meaning or reaching their desired destination.

𝑬𝒏𝒗𝒆𝒍𝒐𝒑/𝒆 brings together choreographers Jade Manns (@jademanns) and Ella Dawn W-S (@dancews) for site-specific duets that navigate presence and absence, repetition and rupture, and the tension between inherited geometries and shifting landscapes. Here, dance unfolds at the site of de/construction.

🎟️ This program has limited capacity, and features two time slots for entry at 6:30pm and 8:30pm. No waitlist!

📷 slide 1: Jade & Kate Manns by @dylancpearce / slide 2: Ella Dawn W-S & Laura Witsken by @angelofiore.xyz

At 6:30pm and 8:30pm on Wednesday, July 1st, Isabella Thorpe-Woods (@bellathorpewoods) presents 𝑬𝒏𝒗𝒆𝒍𝒐𝒑/𝒆, her second program as ISSUE’s 2026 Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellow. Over the course of her fellowship, the artist will share a series of events that explore letters as a curatorial prompt, and the ways they both fail and succeed in transmitting meaning or reaching their desired destination.

𝑬𝒏𝒗𝒆𝒍𝒐𝒑/𝒆 brings together choreographers Jade Manns (@jademanns) and Ella Dawn W-S (@dancews) for site-specific duets that navigate presence and absence, repetition and rupture, and the tension between inherited geometries and shifting landscapes. Here, dance unfolds at the site of de/construction.

🎟️ This program has limited capacity, and features two time slots for entry at 6:30pm and 8:30pm. No waitlist!

📷 slide 1: Jade & Kate Manns by @dylancpearce / slide 2: Ella Dawn W-S & Laura Witsken by @angelofiore.xyz

FREE WITH RSVP!

Saturday, June 27, 2026 AIR rocío sánchez presents their second commission, featuring Melissa Almaguer (tap dance and percussion) and Kenneth Jiménez (double bass). Together, the trio explores the elusive monarch’s migratory journey through sound and movement, with each instrument articulating distinct states of motion.

Drawing from close observation and sketching of monarch flight patterns, sánchez developed a score in which the sounds gradually emerge, echoing the increased activity of the butterflies in warmer weather. As rising spring temperatures prompt northward migration from wintering grounds in Mexico, the performance similarly expands in density and proximity: gestures gather, overlap, and eventually, recede.

@roci1o @knthjimenez @melialmaguer #issueair20

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Wednesday, June 17th, ISSUE presents the premiere of three audiovisual compositions by 2010 AIR Matt Mottel (@talibamnyc).

Mottel channels personal history into a layered, time-bending exploration of sound, image, and inheritance. Drawing on Syeus Mottel’s photography of 1960s–70s political and cultural movements, alongside the interdisciplinary practices of his “scene parents,” Yuko Otomo and Steve Dalachinsky, these works map an intergenerational network of influence that extends from downtown avant-garde histories to the present moment. This performance offers a convergence of artistic lineages that have shaped ISSUE from its earliest days, underscoring the residency program’s lasting impact.

📷 digtal still of ISSUE founder Suzanne Fiol’s artwork
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Saturday, June 13th, at 8pm, bassist and composer James Ilgenfritz (2011 AIR) returns to ISSUE, joined by Joe McPhee and AC Diamond for their first performance as a trio. Developed through years of individual collaborations, this event, supported by Antisocial Music, marks a new shared context for three artists deeply invested in improvisation as a mode of inquiry.

@jamesilgenfritz @ac____dmnd #joemcphee #issueair20

📣 Just announced 📣

Saturday, June 13th, at 8pm, bassist and composer James Ilgenfritz (2011 AIR) returns to ISSUE, joined by Joe McPhee and AC Diamond for their first performance as a trio. Developed through years of individual collaborations, this event, supported by Antisocial Music, marks a new shared context for three artists deeply invested in improvisation as a mode of inquiry.

@jamesilgenfritz @ac____dmnd #joemcphee #issueair20

📣 Just announced 📣

Saturday, June 13th, at 8pm, bassist and composer James Ilgenfritz (2011 AIR) returns to ISSUE, joined by Joe McPhee and AC Diamond for their first performance as a trio. Developed through years of individual collaborations, this event, supported by Antisocial Music, marks a new shared context for three artists deeply invested in improvisation as a mode of inquiry.

@jamesilgenfritz @ac____dmnd #joemcphee #issueair20

💖 It is so special to be back at home at @issueprojectroom for @bangonacan Long Play Festival! Here is a little excerpt from rehearsal yesterday @issueprojectroom The reverb in this room is so magical! I’ll be playing my record The In Between in its entirety today at 3:00pm. 💖 See you all soon !

ISSUE Project Room is proud to participate in Bang on a Can’s (@bangonacan) 2026 Long Play festival, with rare presentations and festival debuts from past ISSUE Artists-In-Residence, taking place at the 22 Boerum Pl. theater May 2-3. 🔗 Link to tickets and passes on our website.

Featuring performances by:
@shelleyburgon
@byronwestbrook
@ilotnasailuj
@elikeszler
@crovvns
@aspaceforsound
@thegomashio
@_._kwami_._
@cspenceryeh

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COMING MAY 7 🦠

“Technology shapes our identity, forcing ideas about who we are onto us, producing homogenization, classification, behavior, adjustment, and retrofitting. We use these technologies (AI) and ecosystems (XR) to create space for un-flattened identities and extended expressions in hybrid worlds.”

Quote from co-director @danymcphatter
@evadavidovany
@selwaaabd
@heyvinson
& more

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On Tuesday, May 26th at 12pm, ISSUE Online brings together anna RG (2025 AIR) and Theodore (ted) Kerr (2022 SFCF). Drawing on RG’s speculative fiction project, Sick Music Center, the pair establish a shared set of rules, organizing their dialogue around three key prompts they call “Strategy,” “Focus,” and “Loose Ends.” Kerr sets an 8-minute timer for each section, and with that, they play, discover, and ultimately, (¯´•._.• disobey •._.•´¯)

@arg___art @tedkerr #issueair20

Very few tickets remain. Join us on April 25 to celebrate Carol Parkinson’s 37 years of extraordinary leadership as Executive Director of Harvestworks.

7:30 PM
Door Opens

8:00 PM
Lori Napoleon
Live analogue synthesizer performance

8:30 PM
Screen Play by Christian Marclay
A video score in which found film footage is combined with computer animation to create a visual projection interpreted by live musicians. Performed by Elliott Sharp with Melvin Gibbs, Jim Thirlwell, Kalun Leung, and Judith Insell.

9:00 PM
Yo Vinyl Richie
Vinyl DJ set featuring some of Carol’s favorite records.

We gratefully acknowledge Paula Cooper Gallery for generously loaning Screen Play by Christian Marclay. @paulacoopergallery

At a time when many are (still) asking “how did we get here?” we return to @lilbertucci and @cjm_bklyn 2016 performance of “Our Collective Cynicism is a Product of Failed Revolution” for amplified trombone and tape.

Join them both again tomorrow with master flutist @norbertrodenkirchen for the celebration of 20 years of ISSUE’s residency program and the NYC premiere of “The Days Pass Quickly Immersed in the Shadow of Eternity,” contemplating the depths of human history through the lens of our contemporary upheavals.

Pre-sales close at 4pm!

📹: video clip by Yiyang Cao and Wyatt Owens, December 10, 2016.

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