Press
“Brooklyn’s leading avant-garde venue…”
Wall Street Journal
“Little Carnegie…it cultivates a studied unpredictability…”
New York Magazine
“a necessity for New York City: it’s a nexus for established and emerging artists whose work encompasses several fields. The organization eschews the politics of experimental genres, not afraid to program hyper academic experimentalism, no wave, and the most intuitive outsider folk music all in the same season.”
WQXR’s Q2 blog
“…their programming…has stayed savvy and relevant…”
Village Voice
“one of the warmest and best-sounding venues in New York.”
Artforum
“a major presenter of experimental music…ideas percolate, aesthetic lines blur, new approaches are explored, refined or discarded. The results are invariably thought-provoking…”
Wall Street Journal
“an indispensible site of offbeat programming.”
“ISSUE Project Room is an example of open-minded, ecumenical presenting at its very best, offering a huge range of ideas without judgment, educating without lecturing, maintaining a casual but committed we’re-all-in-this-together-so-let’s-enjoy-it spirit that is intimate but never amateurish.”
Brooklyn Rail
Press Contact: Andrew Smith – andrew@issueprojectroom.org
Wall Street Journal: A New Leader in the Room – “Despite its international reputation for presenting the latest in avant-garde music and performance—from vintage minimalism to mixed-media experimentation to transcendental rock music—IPR’s most loyal supporters know it as a place where Ms. Fiol would serve home-cooked meals.”
NY Mag: Little Carnegies – Nov. 15, 2010
An All-Day Concert, but Only One Piece Was Performed
Celebrating New Music, Just Off the Beaten Path
Issue Project Room, The Old American Can Factory, Brooklyn, New York Suzanne Fiol wanted to make a space for music, performance, and readings in a spirit of love and commitment, and created one of the warmest and best-sounding venues in New York. – Alex Waterman
THE SURVIVAL OF THE AVANT GARDE
Backstage with ISSUE Project Room’s Suzanne Fiol – Tom Murrin
Going, Going, Gone - Bid on original pieces by Thurston and Yoko – september 18, 2008 “One of the best venues to see experimental artists in the city…” http://www.villagevoice.com/2008-05-06/music/the-latest-issue/ “A place like Issue is essential, and not just for musicians, but for literature, poetry, film—for all artists, really.”
Essential secrets – Littoral Reading Series “one of the most significant musical presentations of the season.” Darmstadt: Essential Repertoire
Party on the Gowanus
LIQUID LIGHT The Joshua Light Show elevates ephemeral luminosity to an astral plane
Live: Soft Circle, Invisible Conga People at Issue Project Room STILL SEEING THINGS – The Joshua Light Show comes back from the future Live: Spiritual Unity with the Joshua Light Show at Issue Project Room
Off the Beaten Beat – Melena Ryzek “Perhaps the biggest wow factor lately comes from seeing a show at a former oil silo on a stretch of the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn…it’s as far from mainstream clubland as you can get.” 
Filling in the New Music Map – Alex Ross ” (… ) the sort of magic moments that I go to performances hoping to see – and I’ve seen more than a few at Issue Project Room.” – Alex Ross, The New Yorker Symphony of the City – Alex Ross ” (…) an indispensable site of offbeat programming…” – Alex Ross, The New Yorker
Press contact: Andrew Smith / andrew@issueprojectroom.org
On January 25, ISSUE Project Room will inaugurate its new space at 110 Livingston with Gaudeamus Muziekweek, a four-day festival celebrating groundbreaking and challenging new music by emerging composers from around the world. Working in partnership ...
ISSUE is starting off the New Year with a change of scenery. That's right, Issue Project Room is moving out of our space at the Old American Can Factory and into 110 Livingston in Downtown Brooklyn. We've had a great run at the Can Factory,...