CATALYSIS PROJECTS

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06/27/2013

THE ALCHEMIST SUITE (Veronika Krausas/composer, Quintan Ana Wikswo/film&libretto, Nicholas Isherwood/baritone) will be performed at the Museum of Modern Art (Ceret, France) on August 17. Stay tuned for details!

06/27/2013

a collaboration for performance by Veronika Krausas, Quintan Ana Wikswo & Nicholas Isherwood

06/18/2013

This Thursday night in Manhattan, the Czech Center presents collaboration by core artists Quintan Ana Wikswo and Veronika Krausas. bit.ly/11JOoyE

Featuring journalists and writers, Ladies First 2013 showcases the writings of today. These diverse stories will be complemented by music, including many new works by some of NYC's most respected and prolific emerging composers and variations on Antonin Dvorak's famous compositions.

05/08/2013

We are delighted to announce the DVD release of otherworldly and arresting THE ANGUILLADAE EATER / JONAS, a collaboration by core artists VERONIKA KRAUSAS (composer) and QUINTAN ANA WIKSWO (film, text, concept), with AMBER BENSON (voice) and BILL BARRETT (harmonica). "THE ANGUILLADAE EATER / JONAS ruptures the primordial mythos of women, sailors, s*x and the sea...instead offering a highly-charged, deeply connected inquiry into the legacy of exploiting ecology to indulge human gratification." http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/veronikakrausasquintanan

Quintan Ana Wikswo's unsettlingly luminous films were created at sites of mass animal slaughter along the desolate New York and California coastlines. Her original animated 35 mm films reveal Point Dume's Paradise Cove where thousands of California grey whales were harpooned, lanced to death and fle...

03/31/2013

from the CATALYSIS PROJECTS DVD release THE ANGUILLADAE EATER / JONAS Quintan Ana Wikswo - original film and text/poems Veronika Krausas - original music BILL BARRETT - harmonica AMBER BENSON - voice In an ancient seafaring adventure, an eel priestess and a sailing man come together in an otherworldly, mesmerizing encounter with eroticism, exploitation, freedom, and ferocity. THE ANGUILLADAE EATER / JONAS ruptures the primordial mythos of women, sailors, s*x and the sea...instead offering a highly-charged, deeply connected inquiry into the legacy of exploiting ecology to indulge human gratification. Quintan Ana Wikswo's unsettlingly luminous original films were created at sites of mass animal slaughter along the desolate New York and California coastlines. Her original animated 35mm films reveal Point Dume's Paradise Cove where thousands of California grey whales were harpooned, lanced to death and flensed into oil, and Barren Island's Dead Horse Bay boneheaps where the bodies of New York City's carriage horses were rendered into glues and fertilizers. Veronika Krausas' haunting, post-apocalypic music for harmonic invokes the ancient cadences, overtones, and disharmonies of the Baltic Coast: sailor songs, pagan chants, and the sounds of cormorants and seagulls. Bill Barrett's solo harmonica creates a compelling sonic voice, simultaneously primordial and deeply modern. THE ANGUILLADAE EATER is based upon the original poems of Quintan Ana Wikswo, performed by actor Amber Benson.

Now available online at http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/veronikakrausasquintanan

03/31/2013

Sneak peek at the new CATALYSIS PROJECTS DVD release of THE ANGULLADAE EATER / JONAS, film and text by Quintan Ana Wikswo, music by Veronika Krausas, harmonica by Bill Barrett, and voice by Amber Benson.

03/16/2013

03/16/2013

Pssst...get ready to be transmogrified into gold: the Los Angeles performance premiere of THE ALCHEMIST'S SUITE - music by Veronika Krausas, text and film projection by Quintan Ana Wikswo, featuring baritone Nicholas Isherwood. Saturday April 20th. Invitation coming soon!

01/10/2013

Congratulations to our core artist Quintan Ana Wikswo for receiving the 2013 Creative Capital Grant in Emerging Fields!!!

Creative Capital announces our 2013 project grants in the categories of Emerging Fields, Literature and the Performing Arts, representing a total...

07/19/2012

Our core artist Veronika Krausas discusses her creative process along with a performance of "OR" by cellist Derek Stein, in Los Angeles on August 23 at MiMoDa.

07/12/2012

Our kaleidoscopic interdisciplinary collaboration SONDERBAUTEN will have its European Premiere at the Jewish Museum of Munich on February 28, 2013. A massive collaborative team includes core artists Quintan Ana Wikswo, Alexx Shilling, and Isaac Schankler...plus dancers, actors, translators, and more. Check out this clip from the CP performance in LA this April...https://vimeo.com/44896931

SONDERBAUTEN: THE SPECIAL BLOCK by Quintan Ana Wikswo performance work by Alexx Shilling and Quintan Ana Wikswo Performance excerpt: SONDERBAUTEN: THE SPECIAL BLOCK A Site-Located Meditation in Poetry, Movement, and Music The Los Angeles Museum…

06/08/2012

Sandman sends us all some charming, practical, tenderhearted artmaking advice. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ikAb-NYkseI

Neil Gaiman Addresses the University of the Arts Class of 2012 One of the best commencement speeches. A must watch for any artist and everyone who hopes to b...

04/25/2012

Composer Tom Flaherty and artist Quintan Ana Wikswo chat with us about 3.14159265, funhouse mirrors, constituent pitches, toy pianos, ambiguous sonorities, bee posture, Archimedes, vegetable orchestras, hickory smoke, and apimania - and their new works for Saturday's "Misfits and Hooligans." http://catalysisprojects.wordpress.com/2012/04/25/misfits-and-hooligans-interview-tom-flaherty-and-quintan-ana-wikswo/

In the second in our series of interviews with artists leading up to the Misfits and Hooligans concert on April 28, we talk to interdisciplinary filmmaker/visual artist/writer (and Catalysis Pro...

04/25/2012

Curious about our phantasmagorically apocalyptic Saturday night performance? Tune in to KPFK 90.7 FM tomorrow at 11am for John Schneider's live interview with CP core artists Veronika Krausas, Isaac Schankler and Quintan Ana Wikswo. http://www.kpfk.org/programs/110-globalvillagethurs.html

KPFK 90.7 FM Los Angeles, 98.7 FM Santa Barbara. Pacifica Radio for Southern California

04/23/2012

CP composer Isaac Schankler chats about wonder, terror, wax cylinders, the ragged breathing of animals, and his new works CHOCOLATE PHASE and MOBILE II. http://catalysisprojects.wordpress.com/2012/04/22/misfits-and-hooligans-interview-isaac-schankler/

In the first in our series of interviews with artists leading up to Misfits and Hooligans concert on April 28, we talk to composer, accordionist, and Catalysis Projects Core Artist Isaac Schankler....

04/21/2012

This Sunday morning at 10:30am, come see CP's Alexx Shilling, Quintan Ana Wikswo and Isaac Shankler remix their collaborative piece, SONDERBAUTEN / site-located interdisciplinary performance meditation for Yom HaShoah at the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust Amphitheater, with collaborators Heather E. Harstad, Andrew Tholl, Chey Chankethya, Sarah Jacobs, Dorothea Herreiner and Anna Lisa Bloth. http://www.lamoth.org/news--events/events/all/0/

04/13/2012

did you catch this month's phenomenal RedCat premiere of 'this dance is stolen' by 2012 CP resident choreographer ALEXX SHILLING? Check out this primer here, and if you were amidst the lucky few who sat on stage during the performance, give us a shout! https://vimeo.com/39589093

we steal because we love. we love you, DB. Video by Da Xu and Alexandra Shilling www.AlexxMakesDances.com