eden girma: I hope / I won't make / any mistak(e)s

eden girma: I hope / I won't make / any mistak(e)s
Fri 18 Sep, 2026, 8pm
22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn 11201

Friday, September 18th at 8pm, ISSUE presents the first commission from 2026 AIR Eden Girma. In this new work for voice and electronics, Girma explores the fraught and ever-shifting nature of being, as colored by loss, language, and belonging. Part dreamscape and part summoning circle, an intimate diasporic familial archive is pieced together through the eyes of a five-year-old child. Improvisation with spoken word and song, digital instruments, live processing, and mixed media, opens a space in which to grapple against both tensions and resonances laced within narratives around migration, cultural preservation, embodied history, and identity making.

Girma's residency is supported by Harvestworks' Technology Immersion Program (TIP) and is part of an ongoing program collaboration between two organizations that are committed to supporting the creation and presentation of experimental performance practices while sharing resources.

This program was curated by Zev Greenfield.