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Issue Project Room Pioneering performance center based in Downtown Brooklyn
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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, 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.

ISSUE Project Room is pleased to announce the selection of Yaz Lancaster (yaz lancaster) as 2027 Suzanne Fiol Curatorial...
10/27/2026

ISSUE Project Room is pleased to announce the selection of Yaz Lancaster (yaz lancaster) as 2027 Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellow.

Lancaster will present a series of curated events where audiences are invited to engage discomfort through generosity, curiosity, and community. This philosophy guides HEAVY HEARTS (HEAVY HEARTS), which celebrates vulnerability in harsh/experimental sonics and fosters meaningful exchange across genres and disciplines.

Congratulations, Yaz ❤️‍🔥

Next Thursday! 2009 AIR Noveller (Sarah Lipstate) debuts selections with visuals from her latest album, I Am The Weather...
10/22/2026

Next Thursday! 2009 AIR Noveller (Sarah Lipstate) debuts selections with visuals from her latest album, I Am The Weather, alongside music drawn from across her catalog. 2024 AIR Axine M (Axine M) performs with fretless guitar, voice and 💻

Tickets at link in bio.

📸 Throwback to these gorgeous cymatic portraits of Sarah & her music as a geometric structure in water by Kevin Ryan (Kevin Ryan). Thank you!

Wow. The Creative Risks 2026 Gala was a tiiiiiiiime. Thank you to Family Dynamics, and to all of our guests for your pre...
10/16/2026

Wow. The Creative Risks 2026 Gala was a tiiiiiiiime.

Thank you to Family Dynamics, and to all of our guests for your presence, energy, dreams, and generosity. Here’s to 20 more years of ISSUE Artists-In-Residence!

📸 photos by the great Cameron Kelly McLeod

Thursday, November 19th at 8pm, 2026 Artist-In-Residence and luthier Webb Crawford presents “that passed away, this also...
10/12/2026

Thursday, November 19th at 8pm, 2026 Artist-In-Residence and luthier Webb Crawford presents “that passed away, this also may.” Free with RSVP!

For their culminating residency commission at ISSUE’s 22 Boerum Pl. theater, Crawford and collaborator Emma Mistele will play the organistrum (roughly 11th-century ancestors of the modern hurdy-gurdy) in trio with Sam Boston, performing on his self-built electric duochord with wheel.

Building the organistrum was made possible via the Community Giveback Membership at Makerspace NYC in Sunset Park 🤝

Webb Crawford MakerSpace NYC emma_mistele Sam Boston

ISSUE presents DREAMCLUB_RADI0, an extra-dimensional radio program which takes place at 3:⚐ℹ︎.?⛽︎ A.M. every night. On F...
10/09/2026

ISSUE presents DREAMCLUB_RADI0, an extra-dimensional radio program which takes place at 3:⚐ℹ︎.?⛽︎ A.M. every night. On Friday, November 13th, join your hosts Eden Girma (2026 AIR) and isa crespo pardo as they make a rare visit to the material plane at MITU580.

🎟️ FREE with RSVP

eden / ኤደን Isabel Crespo Pardo MITU580

Saturday, November 7th at 8pm, ISSUE presents Caminos by 2026 Artist-In-Residence rocío sánchez. Developed throughout sá...
10/08/2026

Saturday, November 7th at 8pm, ISSUE presents Caminos by 2026 Artist-In-Residence rocío sánchez. Developed throughout sánchez’s residency, Caminos provides a framework for musical ideas to emerge and unravel through improvisation, extended technique, and lighting design.

sánchez is joined by friends and collaborators che ali (violin), Nava Dunkelman (percussion), and Henry Fraser (double bass).

🎟️ FREE with RSVP
📸 by 2025 Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellow Kenneth Jimenez Kenneth Jimenez.photo

rocío sánchez che ali nava dunkelman Henry Fraser

2009 ➞ 2024   New poster by Kihclavok Noskcaj Limited capacity remains!
10/07/2026

2009 ➞ 2024
New poster by Kihclavok Noskcaj
Limited capacity remains!

Now Live! 2015 AIR Kim Brandt (Kim Brandt) and 2026 SFCF Isabella Thorpe-Woods (btw) explore questions of presence and a...
10/06/2026

Now Live!

2015 AIR Kim Brandt (Kim Brandt) and 2026 SFCF Isabella Thorpe-Woods (btw) explore questions of presence and archival practice in an era increasingly focused on the digital realm.

Thank you The Chocolate Factory Theater for your support of this ISSUE Online installment during our anniversary season ❤️

A big thank you to Brooklyn Book Festival for bringing ISSUE and Franklin Furnace together this year during our annivers...
10/02/2026

A big thank you to Brooklyn Book Festival for bringing ISSUE and Franklin Furnace together this year during our anniversary seasons. Back to the Present: 50 Years of Free Expression is now available for pre-order!

📸 photos by Owen
Slide 1: editor & Franklin Furnace founder Martha Wilson
Slide 2: 2023 ISSUE AIR Jean Carla Rodea
Slide 3: 2020 Franklin Furnace FUND alumn Arantxa Araujo
Slide 4: short film by 2007 ISSUE AIR Bradley Eros

Franklin Furnace Archive Brooklyn Book Festival Martha Wilson Jean Carla Rodea Arantxa Araujo Bradley Eros

Some epic shots of nnck_ad at ISSUE’s Fall Opening earlier this month 😮‍💨 📸 by Cameron Kelly McLeod
09/29/2026

Some epic shots of nnck_ad at ISSUE’s Fall Opening earlier this month 😮‍💨

📸 by Cameron Kelly McLeod

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