Image courtesy Catalina Alvarez.
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Screen Play is a “series” of “readings” hosted by Catalina Alvarez, with work by Alvarez, Berisha Fareau, Paige Finley, Daniel Fishkin, Nicole Kugel, Samuel Lang Budin, Catarina Real, Ron Shalom, Femi Shonuga-Fleming and Ashley Yang-Thompson.
PROGRAM
Nicole Kugel: The Shrimple Life
An essay about experiencing nature through computers.
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)
Catarina Real: Color
A book of poems and visual works.
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.
Femi Shonuga-Fleming: Thanks to the ground beneath my feet
A multimedia essay ritual
Samuel Lang Budin: Vicinity
A poem of dashed expectations on the apps.
Catalina Alvarez, w Berisha Fareau & Paige Finley + Minivan: App
A short story about phones with a movement performance featuring Minivan’s Everyone Gets it But Me (App Mix)
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
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.
Samuel Lang Budin was co-editor of their high school lit mag.
Daniel Fishkin’s ears are ringing. Composer of musical instruments. 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.
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.
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.
Ron Shalom’s electropop drag spectacle, Minivan, features custom live-controlled lights, instructional dance, and original music. His sound sculptures are exhibited internationally, and he is often engaged as a producer, multi-instrumentalist, and composer for film and theater.
Femi Shonuga-Fleming is studying architecture at RISD and performs sonic rituals as Sadnoise.
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.