High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Suzanne Fiol (United States, May 9, 1960 – October 5, 2009) ,"an impresario of avant-garde culture in New York" founded the performance space ISSUE Project Room in 2003 and oversaw its growth from the fringes of the New York new music scene into what The Village Voice , The Brooklyn Borough President, and Fiol herself predicted will become the "Carnegie Hall for the avant-garde" when it opens its downtown Brooklyn location in 2011. Fiol`s goal in life "was to create a dynamic environment for music, performance, readings, and the development of new work, and she succeeded; the organization has become a reference for experimental art in New York City….(S)he devoted her life to the promotion of experimental culture."