WATCHING ME / WATCHING YOU is a performance exploring the subtly of oppression within everyday gestures. An ongoing collaboration between Joshua Kent, Matthew Nicholas and Courtney Mackedanz, the performance is crafted in the shadow of accessible pornography and mediated digital flesh. Employing devised and quotational choreography, audiences watch three bodies move within a sparse environment, speaking texts written by strangers and performing dances acquired from television and the Internet. WATCHING ME / WATCHING YOU investigates the spectatorship of live performance and the utility of the gaze within forces of domination, asking audiences to investigate their own culpability within dynamics of presentation.

NYPAC, the New York Performance Artists Collective, is pleased to present Spilling Over, an evening of curated performances at the Knockdown Center on October 15th, 2016. Organized around an expanded notion of theater, the program features works by Caitlin Baucom, Cammisa Buerhaus, and Isaac Pool that employ theatricality outside of its institutionalized boundaries.

Cammisa Buerhaus will premiere Private Lives, a hallucinatory filmic exploration into the hyper-real world of Bill and Hillary Clinton, their mythic proportions and amorphous, shape shifting tendencies in three parts. The film moves from the political legacy of William Jefferson Clinton into the private correspondences of Hillary Rodham Clinton, supported by an all star cast, including Monica Lewinsky, Jon Benet Ramsey, Debbie Harry, and Justin Trudeau. Presented through the refractory lens of popular entertainment television programs like E True Hollywood Story and Entertainment Tonight, PRIVATE LIVES gives us lives – not lived – but putrefied.

Isaac Pool’s one-act object dramas, DSM-V and Untitled (Carry Out stage), place characters, processes, and objects in relationships that produce unsettling tension and humorous attachment. In Untitled (Carry Out stage) a group of strangers meet on a train platform in a choreography led by groceries, snack foods, and a Tupperware container full of soup, and in DSM-V one woman is caught in the wistful rapture of coupon clipping in a nice breeze.

Caitlin Baucom’s Citizen I was originally commissioned by the Städtische Museen Zittau and performed within its dungeon basement. The opera addresses itself to the 18th century utopianist Christian Gottlieb Priber. With its manic choreography and ethereal vocals, it produces a shattered, compelling critique of what ideological aspirations might be feasible now.

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Caitlin Baucom is a Brooklyn based performer and composer, invested in parsing fear bodily and making a mess. Her interdisciplinary work has shown extensively in the US and internationally, including recently at Naherholung Sternchen (Berlin), Dimanche Rouge (Paris), Stockholm Fringe Fest (Stockholm), Galerie KUB (Leipzig), and Städtische Museen (Zittau, Germany); at Dfbrl8r, High Concept Laboratories, Mana Contemporary, Southside Hub of Production and Nightingale Cinema in Chicago; and LUMEN Festival, HERE Arts, ABC No Rio, Otion Front Studio, 315 Gallery, Dixon Place, Powrplnt, JACK, Knockdown Center, and SIGNAL Gallery in NYC. Her work and writing is published in Emergency INDEX: Volume 3, Bad at Sports, and Incident Magazine, and she was the winter 2013 fellow of the ACC Galerie (Weimar, Germany) on the theme ‘Criminality in Art.’ As a performer for the Museum of Modern Art and New Museum (NYC) she has interpreted and performed the work of Lygia Clark, James Lee Byars, and Yoko Ono, among others.

Cammisa Buerhaus is a sound artist and actress based in NYC. She uses image and sound to synthesize critiques of politics and gender. Buerhaus has recently screened her new film Performance By Appointment in Stockholm, premiered compositions at The Whitney Museum of American Art for Felix Bernstein’s opera Bieber Bathos Elegy, and currently tours as a lead actress with the theatre company The NYC Players, presenting The Evening in Lisbon, Brussels, Bologna, Paris, Toulouse, Marseille, and Athens. Other collaborative projects include the improv duo 大凶風呂 and a reprisal of Hillary Clinton for Cecilia Corrigan’s film Motherland. Her work has been reviewed in The Wire, Artforum, and Texte Zur Kunst.

Isaac Pool is an artist and poet from Detroit living in New York. Recent performances include “Beet Joy,” with Jessica Posner as maybe at the Judson Memorial Church, and “40 Volume,” at the Brick Theatre. Recent exhibitions include “Good Piece of Food,” with Crystal Palmer, Grey Light Projects, Brussels, and “Thanks to Apple, Amazon, and the Mall,” Klaus Von Nichtssagend, New York. A first full length book of poems in print, “Light Stain,” is available from What Pipeline, Detroit, and an eBook, “Alien She,” is available from Klaus eBooks. Pool holds a BFA in Electronic Art from Wayne State University and an MFA from Parsons the New School for Design.

Lucy in Limbo is a two-part play that sees the build and wake of a cataclysmic storm spanning two decades of a couple’s lives together. Holed up in their New York City apartment, immobilized and mummified in bandages, they find themselves at the mercy of an over-caffeinated journalist as she prods them about their survival. Written by Moze Halperin and Anna Eisley of Onderdonk Collective, Lucy in Limbo finds isolation and horror through the heightened style of traditional American sitcoms.

An improvised dance performance in the vast open space of Knockdown Center by Jenna Balfe and Misael Soto, with accompanying flute by Dennis Fuller. The performers create a dance that embodies the continuation of a longer collaboration, alternating between witness and viewer, showing how gaze can empower, reflect, and transform a dialogue. In these times, how we “view” each other can be a matter of life or death. Join us as we meditate upon this subject.

“2015 OBIE Award … Best Ambulatory Feast of Experimental Performance”- The Village Voice

As part of the Queens International 2016, Ugly Duckling Presse, Knockdown Center, and the Queens Museum in collaboration with Trans-Pecos co-present an evening with Poet Transmit. Poet Transmit is a project launched by artist/curator Victoria Keddie and writer/artist Cat Tyc as a way to engage in the connections between poetry, transmission, and performance.

Through a consortium of publishers, artists, poets, and transmission-based organizations, Keddie and Tyc’s project explores textual practice and modes of transmission, exposing the potential of poetic projection, kinetic dialogue, and expanded fields of time. What transpires is a televisual poetry reading series that explores alternative areas of practice and reflects on its own methodologies.

Documented events will be broadcast on E.S.P. TV’s cable access program on MNN, as well as with Wave Farm Radio (operated in Acra, NY as well as online).