Issue Project Room

Issue Project Room 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.

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08/29/2026

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ISSUE presents performances by guitarists Noveller, the solo project of 2009 AIR Sarah Lipstate (Sarah Lipstate), and 20...
08/27/2026

ISSUE presents performances by guitarists Noveller, the solo project of 2009 AIR Sarah Lipstate (Sarah Lipstate), and 2024 AIR Axine M (Axine M).

Noveller debuts selections from her latest album, I Am The Weather (2026), alongside music drawn from across her catalog. Working with electric guitar, pedals, and looping, Lipstate builds serendipitous compositions that create what Iggy Pop once described to Jim Jarmusch as “symphonies for people that don’t have a lot of time.”

Axine M performs with fretless guitar, voice, and computer. With “puppet strings taut between the constellation of musical control points,” she continues her exploration across genres and sentiments.

🗓️ Oct 29 8pm
🏠 22 Boerum Pl. Brooklyn, NY
🎟️ Link in bio! Discounted member access

Just announced! For this anniversary season, Haela Ravenna Hunt-Hendrix (2012 AIR) presents a limited capacity solo prog...
08/26/2026

Just announced! For this anniversary season, Haela Ravenna Hunt-Hendrix (2012 AIR) presents a limited capacity solo program for looped electric guitar, voice, electronics, and piano. Drawing from the Liturgy (Haela Ravenna Hunt-Hendrix) oeuvre performed throughout Asia and Latin America over the past year, the evening also features new compositions presented at ISSUE for the first time.

🗓️ Oct 24 8pm
🏠 22 Boerum Pl. Brooklyn, NY
🎟️ Free for ISSUE Members as part of our 2026 campaign!

On Tuesday, October 6th, the next installment of io brings together 2015 AIR and choreographer Kim Brandt (Kim Brandt) a...
08/21/2026

On Tuesday, October 6th, the next installment of io brings together 2015 AIR and choreographer Kim Brandt (Kim Brandt) and 2026 SFCF Isabella Thorpe-Woods (btw).

Centered around never-before-released footage from Clear Night (2016)—Brandt’s eight-day durational AIR commission at Pioneer Works—the project revisits a performance that has remained largely unseen for nearly a decade.

Throughout 2026, past Artists-in-Residence and Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellows will activate ISSUE Online (io) in celebration of the 20th anniversary of ISSUE’s AIR program.

08/19/2026

Season In Review: 2015 ISSUE Project Room AIR Lea Bertucci () & Norbert Rodenkirchen’s () “The Days Pass Quickly Immersed in the Shadow of Eternity” full video now available in our online archive!

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🖤 to see the recent Heavy Play s/o from our friends at

08/17/2026

2026 ISSUE Artist-In-Residence eden girma () reminds us to think of our bodies and selves as an ultimate creative project, always in progress.

Through a genre-bending ear and a poetic lyricism, they aspire to create art that not only resonates with individual hearts, but brings people closer together in a spirit of intimacy and empathy.

Join us on Sep 18 at 8pm for their first commission supported by:
technology immersion program (TIP)
tap plus for support with captioningeppley sonic descriptor extraordinaire

Free with RSVP!

📹 clip from ISSUE’s Distant Pairs Live In NYC event on May 10, 2025 co-presented with . Video by

ISSUE Project Room is pleased to announce the addition of Chris Douglas, Chris McIntyre and Adam Shore to the organizati...
08/11/2026

ISSUE Project Room is pleased to announce the addition of Chris Douglas, Chris McIntyre and Adam Shore to the organization’s Board of Directors!

Chris Douglas is the founder of Boundary Road Productions, a New York company that helps ambitious live work find the structure, audience, and financial model it needs to last. BRP produced Julio Torres’s Color Theories, which earned a 2026 Drama Desk nomination for Unique Theatrical Experience. He has worked across high-growth technology companies including MongoDB, Facebook, and Yahoo, bringing experience in partnerships, technology, and helping early ideas find structure and support. He currently heads Growth at Quantifi, a financial software company. A Johns Hopkins graduate with a degree in economics and a minor in music composition, Douglas also guest lectures through the Whiting School of Engineering’s Center for Leadership Education. He is excited to support ISSUE’s next chapter by helping build the audiences, partnerships, and systems that uplift experimental work without softening its artistic risk.

Chris McIntyre is a Brooklyn-based trombonist, curator, composer, music director, and educator. He has been a member of the ISSUE community since 2004. Known for his expansive engagement with the music of Julius Eastman, McIntyre serves as Director of TILT Brass (co-founder in 2003) and Co-Director and trombonist for Either/Or Ensemble. He specializes in live ensemble work meshing improvisative & interpretive material as a player and as composer and director. He regularly performs with TILT, Either/Or, and American Composers Orchestra, among many others. McIntyre leads a distinguished career as an independent concert programmer in New York (The Kitchen, MATA Festival, Ne(x)tworks, ISSUE) and music director (projects at MoMA and Guggenheim, leading Eastman’s Femenine with SEM & Talea Ensembles and Orchestra of St. Luke’s). He teaches at Mannes School of Music at The New School and in the ACO’s Teaching Artist program. McIntyre brings years of Board experience to his new role at ISSUE having served for organizations including MATA and Tri-Centric Foundation.

Adam Shore has been collaborating with independent-mi

08/06/2026

NOW AVAILABLE TO STREAM! Inspired by J.G. Ballard’s notion of a “science fiction of the next five minutes,” 𝘙𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘗𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘦 / 𝘊𝘢𝘮𝘱𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘦 𝘚𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘴 unfolds in an alternate worldline where a dystopian, technocratic AI governance system has banned non-AI concerts, forcing music to survive as clandestine ritual. For this rare solo performance, 2011 AIR Taraka explores “campfire songs” as a microcosmic invitation to imagine what forms of togetherness and collective healing are still possible.

Thank you TARAKA!

📹 clip by Yiyang Cao Kihclavok Noskcaj Meg McDermott

08/04/2026

This month we’re highlighting moments from our 2026 season so far. Now available for free in our online archive, ICYMI 💔

Today we’re spotlighting 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘐𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘐𝘴 𝘢 𝘚𝘦𝘦𝘥 by 2010 Artist-In-Residence, Matt Mottel. Mottel’s performance emerges from a deeply personal NY lineage, and asks: how did NY’s experimental culture actually sustain itself through decades of rising precarity — not through institutions alone, but through friendship, mentorship, and informal cultural labor that often goes undocumented?

Thank you Matt Mottel!

📹 clip by Kihclavok Noskcaj Owen Meg McDermott

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