Image courtesy Catalina Alvarez.
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Screen Play is a “series” of “readings” hosted by Catalina Alvarez, with work by Alvarez, Berisha Faveau, Paige Finley, Daniel Fishkin, Nicole Kugel, Samuel Lang Budin, Jonathan Matthews-Guzmán, Catarina Real, and Ashley Yang-Thompson.
PROGRAM
Nicole Kugel: The Shrimple Life
An essay about experiencing nature through computers.
Catalina Alvarez: App
A short story about phones.
Berisha Faveau, Paige Finley, Jonathan Matthews-Guzmán, and Catarina Real: App
A movement performance choreographed by Catalina Alvarez featuring Minivan’s Everyone Gets it But Me (App Mix).
Catarina Real: Color
A book of poems and visual works.
Samuel Lang Budin: Vicinity
A poem of dashed expectations on the apps.
Ashley Yang-Thompson: MY ANUS (delivers ephemeral, anti-capitalist art every most day[s])
The (highly unprofessional) philosophical pedagogy of ash yang-thompson
(which is in a perpetual state of flux)
(because life resists comprehension)
(excerpt)
Catalina Alvarez and Daniel Fishkin: Modos de Transporte: Bois de Rose
Modos de Transporte is a multilingual travel series. In the pilot episode, “Bois de Rose” the host takes a high speed rail train from Paris to Bordeaux and there discovers the studio of Jose Le Piez, builder of “abrassons,” a type of friction drum sculpted from trees that sings with the simple caress of a hand.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Nicole Kugel is a recent graduate of Columbia’s MFA in Creative Writing. Her work can be read in SKOO and LitHub. She is currently the Fiction Reader for The Hudson Review and working on a collection of short stories.
Catalina Alvarez is the director of the feature-length anthology documentary Sound Spring (2024). She heads the Art & Engagement program at Fordham University and currently lives in New York, NY.
Jonathan Matthews-Guzmán is a bi-racial, neurodivergent, and gender expansive multidisciplinary performance artist, writer, and educator of Puerto Rican and Irish descent, currently dwelling in Queens and Newburgh. Hailing from Memphis, TN, they came to NYC in 2011 to attend NYU Tisch Dance, where they additionally studied music. Since then, they have accumulated and phased between a diverse array of collaborators, including Erin Mee, Valerie Green, Darrah Carr, Indah Mariana, and Chris Ferris. Alongside Holly Sass, their duo, BREAKTIME, appeared in CPR’s Fall Movement in 2018. With CPR staff member Rebecca Gual, they perform and teach for ChristinaNoel & The Creature. Presently, Jonathan is developing a practice of cooperative improvisational performance, and hopes you will join them! A collaborative musician, they accompany dance classes throughout NYC, sing in two choruses, and serve as a Music Minister at a Presbyterian church in NJ. Their writing on performance can be found at Eye On Dance, Dance Magazine, and scattered others. Jonathan has enjoyed moving with, and being moved by Catalina Alvarez.
Catarina Real works in the intersection between artistic practice and theoretical research in the Literatura, Visual Arts and Pe, mostly working in long-term collaborative projects that address the question of how can we better live collectively. She is currently a PhD student in Cultural Studies at Minho University with a research that crosses art, love and capital.
Samuel Lang Budin was co-editor of their high school lit mag.
Ash Yang-Thompson is the author of How to be the Worst Laziest Fattest Most Incontinent Piece-of-Shit in the world EVER (Bateau Press, 2021) and the chapbook Sky Mall (above/ground press, 2020), which was written collaboratively with Mikko Harvey. She almost won a Pushcart Prize for her poem White Fur Rug. She currently lives in Portland, OR.
Daniel Fishkin’s ears are ringing. Composer of musical instruments. Daniel’s lifework investigating the aesthetics of hearing damage has received international press (Nature Journal, 2014). He is the only luthier that studied directly with the daxophone’s inventor, Hans Reichel; Daniel’s instruments have traveled the world, including Canada, California, Norway, Germany, France, Japan, Kazakhstan, and Australia. He is currently a PhD Candidate in Composition and Computer Music at the University of Virginia.