Issue Project Room

Name: Issue Project Room
Address: 22 Boerum Place, New York, NY, 11201, US
Telephone: +17183300313
Price range: $
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Issue Project Room Pioneering performance center based in Downtown Brooklyn
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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.

04/01/2025

🏠 ISSUE is proud to participate in Bang on a Can’s 2025 Long Play festival (5/3 & 5/4) the first weekend in May, with presentations taking place at the 22 Boerum Pl. theater highlighting musicians who have contributed to ISSUE’s history.

🛜 Throughout May, ISSUE and Ukrainian curatorial platform Time Based will stream three commissioned works uniting artists based in Kyiv and NYC as part of the ongoing Distant Pairs Series. Working through the simultaneity of war and multiple crises, Madison Greenstone & Anton Saenko (5/7), Eden Girma & Maryana Klochko (5/14), and Oleksii Podat & Suzanne Thorpe (5/21) engage in collaborative creations that highlight physical distance - yet reveal a deeply layered interdependence. The American artists will also participate in Distant Pairs Live in NYC (5/10).

🏡 At the end of the month, ISSUE presents a release event for “Bored Giant Engine Sputter” (5/29), the latest EP by Axine M, out this May on anno records. The evening will feature a live set by Axine M reworking tracks from the EP, and a new work by choreographer Amelia Heintzelman.

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) 💙💚

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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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