Photo by Alex Excalante
Decoder 2017 is a three-part concert series exploring the language and prophecies of William S. Burroughs on the merging of body, media, and machine. This interactive performance is generated live by cassette tape DJ and sound artist G. Lucas Crane and performer Jim Findlay, who serve as both fictional characters and real-time systems operators. Together they create a cut-up of Internet trash, cinematic dreamscapes, and obscene routines that expose our complicity in the systems that control us. Decoder 2017: The Ticket That Exploded is generously sponsored by Chronogram magazine.
“Memory and image, literary ghosts, and an actual possession all phase together in Mallory Catlett’s sublime This Was the End, a postmodern séance.” —Time Out New York
About the Artist
Creator/director Mallory Catlett began Restless NYC to reconstruct canonical literary and theatrical works into performances that engage the past in a dialogue about life in the present. In 2014 This Was the End, her remix of Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya, won Obie, Bessie, and Henry Hewes Awards. In 2015 Catlett received a Foundation for Contemporary Arts grant. Decoder 2017 is based on Burroughs’ Nova Trilogy and part of M/F Future, a project about how we imagine what we’ll become.
Performance Program