119 north 11th street
catalystprojectbrooklyn@gmail.com
this a fluid collective platform:
contribute your creations, attend events, join in, alter it.
louberg:“Happy Talk”
30 second video art piece made by yours truly
Sorry about our MIA status as of recent— we’ve been talking about doing a 4 or 5 day visual show sometime in November, where we’d redesign our place, in order to install a number of visual pieces, be them sculpture, video/ digital art, paintings, in a more formal gallery like setting (while nevertheless keeping with 119N11th’s eclectic (sometimes interpreted as hoarder-ly) vibes).
For December, we are collaborating with the experimental Lang-based writing group called Picnic Lightning for a reading event. The focus for the event will be mostly on poetry, prose, or other writings, but we are also completely open to other performance art, stand up, or acoustic sets, etc.
We also plan to create/ compile a zine during November, to be distributed during our next ‘big’ event (similar to past events), the date of which has yet to be determined (but will probably be a closing event for the visual show in November).
)) Katie
“Sunflowers and Levitating” by Tucker Rountree
This was screened via vhs + projector on Saturday night.
This weekend’s event was a success (in many ways)! If you have any photos/ videos/ sound recordings of the event, send ‘em over to catalystprojectbrooklyn@gmail.com. We’ll slowly be posting things on this tumblr during the next few weeks. Also feel free to make suggestions here.
Our next event will be taking place on Saturday, August 13th, starting around 8. You can look forward to a bunch of spoken word performances, film screenings, sound art, and music with bands such as Marlon Rando , The Taxidermists (who are coming up from Woods Hole and Vineyard Haven), The Lift Away, an acoustic Day Dress set, Pool Sharks and solo performances by many other friends as well as ourselves (Lydia, Katie & Amy).
There will be plenty of visual art scattered all over our walls, as usual— everything is up from the last two events— and we will have material available to make your own art or to do some sort of group collaboration (I would love to build a sculpture or a model of a location and to have materials available for people to add on to it throughout the night). We’ll document as much or as little of the night and your creations as you would like, and will post videos, sound recordings, and scans/ photos on here afterward. Hopefully I’ll be able to figure out how upload recordings from my camera, because I have about 3 hours of footage from the past two parties I’d like to edit into a shorter video.
Anyway, please contact us if you’d like to perform or to submit something prior to the show! This is a great chance to showcase something of yours with no stress or judgment. Also, this time, we’re charging $5 if you don’t show up prepared. This is not to make money, rather, it’s to encourage you to make anything and bring it, because the night is just better if everyone is down to participate.
+ Katie
June 18th and 19th we will be open as a gallery! If you want anything installed here at our apartment for one (or both) of those days, get in contact with us. We already have a few friends that have said they’d like to install something here, and we have limited space, so the sooner you let us know, the better. If you’re not in the area, you can still submit something digitally (a film or sound art, etc) to be screened. Also, performances will be taking place mainly during the evenings at the happenings (most likely the nights of the 17th & 18th), but if you’d like to do something during the day (from noon to 6pm), that’s cool too. We’re going to have an install day on the 16th, but if you’re not around that day, you can come by anytime before the 17th to install what you’ve made. Really, anything you can think of goes; we support you and your artistic endeavors!
semi-documentary autobiographical short about the M train by jake moore
