@CPR | Screen Play: A “series” of “readings”

CPR – Center for Performance Research

CPR - Center for Performance Research

Proceeds go to the <a href="https://www.eff.org/about" title="https://www.eff.org/about" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Electronic Frontier Foundation </a> 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 LifeAn 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: ColorA 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: VicinityA poem of dashed expectations on the apps. Catalina Alvarez, w Berisha Fareau &amp; 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 &amp; 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.