Catch

July 2017 at The Invisible Dog Art Center
- Photos by Emma Ressel

C'mon, bring your dad!

WITNESS RELOCATION first did CATCH 17 in the back room of the original Galapagos Art Space in Williamsburg. And they did probably our weirdest show, CATCH 29 at The Bushwick Starr, where they showed in-progress material from their show "Dancing vs. The Rat Experiment." Here you can see DAN SAFER's duet from the full version at La Mama with fellow Basilica artist HEATHER CHRISTIAN.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4W9iAAbOhI

They're in the middle of their Boot Camp in the Catskills now and we can't wait to see what they bring us!

http://witnessrelocation.org/educatio/

Dancing Vs The Rat Experiment - Witness Relocation Duet from "Rat Experiment" - dance/theater by Witness Relocation Music by Skeleton Key www.witnessrelocation.org

We were so excited about Saúl Ulerio after his first CATCH (61, at the Invisible Dog) that a couple days later we asked him to do our very NEXT show, CATCH takes PHILLY. His dancing is gorgeous and he always creates a real gesamtkunstwerk, in which every element is important. He's the kind of artist who barely talks to youat tech, and doesn't show you anything. He just walks around, plotting, gives you one or two very basic instructions, and you have no idea what he's going to do. But then he's made a bunch of lighting looks for himself and knows exactly what he's doing at showtime. So this Sunday at we'll probably be experiencing the magic right along with you!

We were pretty surprised by how many mutual friends we had with David Szlasa and yet we'd never met him until earlier this year. David and his family moved to Germantown, NY from San Francisco about a year ago and this will be his first Catch on Sunday! He's connected to so many folks in the Catch orbit that it will feel like he's an old friend. David's main creative project over the past several years has been Range Studio (which his dad drove all the way across the country to bring to the Hudson Valley!), and it will be parked outside Basilica Hudson on Sunday with a special installation.

Range Studio is "a public art project, mobile work space and micro residency center." We think it looks pretty damn cool, too. David is one of those people who just does everything (Design! Fabrication! Video! Electrics! Social practice!) and he does it well, thoughtfully, with consideration of social and ecological sustainability, and with a lot of love for artists and artistry.

David! Welcome to Catch!

http://www.davidszlasa.com/Projects/Pages/Range_Studio.html

Range Studio Studio 1 is a 65 square foot “off the grid” solar powered art studio is built on the back of a flat bed trailer that can be deployed to locations as needed to support public art projects and performances. Studio 1 is built from reclaimed and salvage materials, designed and constructed by David Szla...

Wow. We feel really really really lucky that Adrienne Truscott still likes doing our shows. She's such a boss!!! This will be her 5th time showing her own work with us, and she's performed in at least one other catch, with Kenny Mellman in WHY WON'T YOU LET ME BE GREAT!!!. Oh actually she definitely also did a thing with Neal Medlyn and berets called GET MODERN ON ME at our first show in the big city, CATCH TAKES MANHATTAN at La Mama.

But 10 years later, Adrienne's piece from XVI, with Neal and Carmine Covelli, is still one of our all-time favorite things that's ever happened at CATCH:

https://vimeo.com/998820

Adrienne Truscott - Catch 16 CATCH XVI Apri 1, 2006 Galapagos Art Space "Genesis, no!" (excerpt) featuring Carmine Covelli and Neal Medlyn www.catchseries.org vimeo.com/channels/catch

Steve Lambert first entered our consciousness with "Capitalism Works for Me! True/False" presented by Times Square Arts, Crossing the Line and Creative Time.

He's a cofounder of The Center for Artistic Activism, and has this really fantastic podcast that's actually one of our top favorites called THE POP CULTURE SALVAGE PODCAST, where they do things that are hugely popular (except maybe with the artist/activist demographic) and review them as experiences. Then they get deep about what they could learn from them to make their activism more effective.

Steve doesn't know us, has never been to CATCH, but we filled out a form on his website and he wrote back and we chatted and he agreed to do Basilica and that's pretty cool.

http://artisticactivism.org/2015/03/our-new-podcast-the-pop-culture-salvage-expeditions/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spR8q4iY9xc

Steve Lambert: Capitalism Works for Me! (True/False) Times Square Broadway Plaza between 43rd & 44th Sts | September 20, 2013, October 6-9, 2013 Steve Lambert, Capitalism Works for Me! (True/False) For photos o...

In 2013 CATCH made an AUNTS and AUNTS made a CATCH, and there's lots of things to say about that, but one big thing that happened was AUNTS brought James Harrison Monaco & Jerome Ellis into our lives. Here they are a year later, in CATCH 64. We're super excited to go upstate with them on the 10th.

https://vimeo.com/111437536

Jerome Ellis & James Harrison Monaco - CATCH 64 Catch 64 November 1, 2014 The Invisible Dog A selection from the literary and live music spectacle AARON/MARIE. We'll be performing the whole shebang on January…