Coming Soon: DECODER: Nova Express (Mallory Catlett / Restless NYC)

 

Remember the future? Nova Express is the final edition of DECODER, a sound and image cutup machine, that has been turning out concerts, digital transmissions, video art, and sound recordings for the last 8 years. This Machine is for everyone – according to William Burroughs whose instructions were followed closely to create it. With two tape recorders and a microphone, performers Jim Findlay and cassette tape artist G Lucas Crane take you on an interstellar adventure into the prophetic imagination of The Nova Trilogy, Burroughs’ 1960’s space odyssey whose central character is the virus. Acting as both fictional characters and real-time systems operators, our time travelers cut internet debris into kaleidoscopic dreamscapes, prophetic pronouncements, and surreal routines of colonial fantasies and alien eroticism that expose their complicity in the systems that control them. Created pre, mid and “post” pandemic, Nova Express is a fever dream turned time machine that confronts the physical sensation of living today by traveling back to a time when the political problems we now face, became unavoidable.

Director: Mallory Catlett. Performer and Set: Jim Findlay. Performer, Sound and Video Manipulation: G Lucas Crane. Video: Keith Skretch. Interaction Design: Ryan Holsopple. Dramaturg: Alex Wermer-Colan. Lighting: Yuki Nakase Link. Costume: Enver Chakartash.

DECODER: Nova Express

June 24 – July 9, 2023
Thursdays through Saturdays at 7:30pm

The Chocolate Factory Theater
38-33 24th Street, Long Island City

Tickets + Info: CLICK HERE

Mallory Catlett - This Was The End (work in progress)

On August 7, Mallory Catlett and her collaborators will present a concert of work-in-progress material for This Was The End.

Noise artist/analog tape DJ G. Lucas Crane and video designer Keith Skretch will perform a live set of fragments from Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya and The White Album. With special appearances by Black-Eyed Susan and a wall from the old Mabou Mines studio. Drinks and conversation will follow the performance.

This concert presents sound, video and set elements developed during Mallory Catlett’s residency at The Performing Garage. The full work This Was The End will premiere at The Chocolate Factory in February 2014. Using Uncle Vanya and featuring four actors in their sixties, the finished piece will explore how memory and longing function in the formation of the future. 

The Performing Garage presents
Mallory Catlett / Restless NYC
THIS WAS THE END
Work-in-Progress (Concert Version)
 
August 7, 2013, 8:00 pm
The Performing Garage
33 Wooster Street, New York City
 
Suggested donation $10
 
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