Issue Project Room

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

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 art

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.

10/30/2025

“It’s a borrowing: we, of this air. wasn’t even mine, and it was only temporary the holding, anyways. In the space of our shared room I breathe in traces of you, you breathe traces of me. In the shade of my small back yard in the city, I recline on a chair on a sickly day and focus on my breathing, which is about all i have energy for. I exhale and the Ailanthus above me reminds me and I try to picture it, breathing me in. i needed a signal or my attention drifts.“

—[in]filtration + a welcome [noise] : a new essay by 2025 AIR anna RG (). Coming to the ISSUE website this Saturday 12pm EDT!

📹 video clip: anna’s in-person event, AIR CHANGE PER HOUR. April 24, 2025. Full video available to watch in our online archive.

Also coming soon : Sick (Music) Center / anna’s Session project with Recess (). Public installation from Nov 22-Jan 10, 2026

10/21/2025

Celebrating David Behrman…

Always,
ISSUE Project Room 🌹

10/16/2025

In 2022, New York-based producer DEBIT () & London-based sound artist Flora Yin Wong presented their first ever collaboration for ISSUE’s Distant Pairs series.

DEBIT finally joins us live next Friday at the 22 Boerum Pl. theater for the release of ‘Desaceleradas,’ a hallucinatory dialogue with Monterrey’s sound system history, echoing across dub reggae in Jamaica, vaporwave, and contemporary electronic music. Out via on November 7th. Opening set by Yaz Lancaster () - link in bio!

10/14/2025

As we enter the final months of our 2025 season, ISSUE celebrates the culmination of our residency and fellowship programs with new commissions from this year’s artists - just announced. Mark your calendars 🗓️

11/1 for ISSUE Online
11/7 .mela.56 by Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellow
11/12
11/21 .lu1 沿光苍穹 at
12/5 at

Image courtesy : at the center, a precise and numbered diagram of the components of an air purifier, accordioned out so you can see its shell, the filters, the fan , and the back-screen. to each side, ink drawings of the fractaling limbs and branches of the lung system, one light green, one dark green, their openings positioned at either end of the purifier.

10/10/2025

At ISSUE’s 2025 Gala, ISSUE Board Chair, R. Luke DuBois (), announced that he will step down from the role at the end of 2025. We are pleased to announce that the incoming Board Chair is musician & composer Richard Kamerman ().

Richard writes: “…As I look toward ISSUE’s next chapter, regardless of the diminished arts-funding landscape that has come about in the past year, we remain committed to the community and supporting the exploration of emerging practices through our core activities including the residency program, celebrating its 20th anniversary next year. This shift in funding is an opportunity to further innovate in our approach, not just sustaining but expanding a creative vision in service of artists and audiences alike.”

🏡 In recognition of Luke’s contribution, he will be performing alongside 2025 NYU Integrated Design & Media audio lab residents Dani Dobkin and Amir ElSaffar on Tuesday, October 28th at the 22 Boerum Pl. theater. We look forward to gathering with the ISSUE community to thank and celebrate Luke.

10/08/2025

David Behrman (.david) is a composer and artist active since the 1960s. Over the years he has made sound and multimedia installations for gallery spaces as well as musical compositions for performance in concerts. Most of his pieces feature flexible structures and the use of technology in personal ways; compositions rely on interactive real-time relationships with imaginative performers. Together with Robert Ashley, Alvin Lucier and Gordon Mumma, Behrman founded the Sonic Arts Union in 1966. He had a long association with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company as composer and performer, created music for several of the Company’s repertory pieces, and was a member of the Company’s Music Committee during its last years. Pictures, with its music Interspecies Smalltalk, won the Olivier Award in 1985.

Tonight, ISSUE Project Room honors David at our 2025 Gala with presentations and performances by:

Peter Gelb

George Lewislu1
Frankie Mann

Carol Robinson

Christian Wolff
+ rare archival footage courtesy of

📷: Installation for New Music America, Courtesy of David Behrman Archives (1981)

09/30/2025

ISSUE Project Room is pleased to announce the selection of Isabella Thorpe-Woods as 2026 Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellow. Thorpe-Woods is a British curator, producer and interdisciplinary artist with a background in performance studies and journalism.

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. She asks, "How can we smuggle critical discourse into public conversation through the act of letter writing and performance? How can we write (to/from/for/about/ourselves) home when the political environment makes our immediate surroundings feel paper thin?" Throughout 2026, she will consider how absence, distance and delayed presence might function not as obstacles, but as structure.

09/22/2025

ISSUE welcomes sound artists, composers, and educators Dani Dobkin () and Amir ElSaffar () to present new solo work for the Serge Modular synthesizer.

This event follows ISSUE’s celebration of the Serge Modular synthesizer’s 50th anniversary in 2023, and the limited engagement with Thomas Ankersmit this past summer at Columbia University’s Computer Music Center. After the completion of 2025 residencies at the NYU Integrated Design & Media audio lab, Dobkin and ElSaffar (with special guest TBA) perform at ISSUE’s home theater with one of the most powerful and versatile electronic instruments of the analog era.

09/19/2025

Just announced! Friday, October 24th at 8pm, ISSUE presents a release event for Desaceleradas, the new album by producer and composer Delia Beatriz () out via Modern Love this November. The album traces the roots of cumbia rebajada—a slowed-down strain of cumbia born in Monterrey in the 1990s.

The evening will feature a live A/V performance by DEBIT that transforms Desaceleradas into “an immersive hauntological environment,” and an opening set by Yaz Lancaster () previewing their forthcoming solo LP with PTP Vision.

09/10/2025

Recorded at NYU Tandon, this installment of ISSUE Online finds R. Luke DuBois () speaking with David Behrman about his formative years in the American and European experimental music scenes, the early days of electronic composition, and his enduring commitment to collaborative creation. Streaming online Sep 30!

This release precedes a live concert on Oct 3 including a performance of “On the Other Ocean” featuring John King (), Aliya Ultan (), Ben Neill (), and Behrman himself. 🌊

08/15/2025

As part of Celebrating David Behrman this Fall, the organization launches ISSUE Online to share three exclusive recorded conversations in advance of the 2025 Gala honoring Behrman’s legacy of collaboration and technological innovation.

The debut release features a dialogue between pioneering composers David Behrman and Terry Riley, moderated by Tom Welsh. The conversation is also presented in the context of a forthcoming Columbia Recordings box set reissue recognizing Riley’s 90th birthday, with liner notes written by Behrman. After more than 15 years, ISSUE captured the two artists face-to-face for a heartfelt reunion and discussion about their longstanding relationship and work in experimental music.

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+17183300313

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https://issueprojectroom.org/

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