CATCH and RELEASE: Current captures from the 181
A collection of audio/video/text materials from the 181 Collective’s adventures before and during their Art on the Move project THE ABSOLUTE VALUE OF INFINITY ON ITS SIDE (O DISSIPATION): Artist collective the 181 (Brandon Boan, Abby Donovan, Tom Hughes, Jason Rhodes) will activate a series of circumstantial compositions considering time-based obstruction, including: the ancient Mud Lake Canal, Reserve-Capacity wave maneuvers, attempts to spot the endangered snail kite, shadow-telling trails from Mabel Cody, and other anomalous successions.
Catch and Release: April 9, 2022
Catch and Release: March 31, 2022
Post Scriptum
The 181 and Cose Cosmiche with Rat Bastard
Locust Projects March 2022
Video credits: Brandon Boan, Cose Cosmiche, Abby Donovan
Catch and Release: March 21, 2022
COSE COSMICHE is an artist collective and a platform/place/catalyst/curatorial project where artists, scientists and researchers from various disciplines are called to present a reflection on space, time, energy, matter, void, to define the universe in which we live and propose new forms, ideas and theories to represent and explain the world. Cose Cosmiche is based in Milan, Italy.
For THE ABSOLUTE VALUE OF INFINITY ON ITS SIDE (O DISSIPATION), Cose Cosmiche will be represented by: Helga Franza, Silvia Hell, Luca Lampo, Domenico Antonio Mancini.
Catch and Release: March 12, 2022
Envelope Fold Quickly on Carpet, 12 March 2022, the 181 at Locust Projects with Eloise Fairbrother
Catch and Release: Collections for the 181 from Emile Milgrim
On view at the University of Delaware’s Recitation Hall Gallery, Miami artist Emile Milgrim shares a collection of printed materials and recordings that represent a wide range of artists active in Miami, Florida. Curated as part of the 181 Collective’s Art on the Move project at Locust Projects: THE ABSOLUTE VALUE OF INFINITY ON ITS SIDE (O DISSIPATION).
GALLERY MAP (start to the left of gallery door) >> Please touch: books and zines are meant to read!
1st shelf
João Orecchia & Sicker Man – Pluton / Neptune CS
João Orecchia Presents ALIHLEKWA: Original Music, Remixes & Outtakes from the Motion Picture Inxeba by John Trengove
DSRTDBCH – Sylvia
Archival Feedback – A Call To Bird
2nd shelf
Adel Souto - Postcards: Ad Removal As Art
Monitor 1
Barron Sherer // Kristen Soller: Barron Sherer, Anew - taupe set xl, 2019, Single Channel Digital Video, 2:13
3rd shelf
Dracula – Dorys & Eli LP
4th shelf
Möthersky – Remain In Memory 7”
5th shelf
156 – Memento Mori 10”
6th shelf
7th shelf
Distant Tongues – Ongue Ditas CS
8th shelf
Richard Vergez: Grown Ups
9th shelf
10th shelf
Noise Dreams Woke: Inside International Noise Conference, Miami 2020
Reading desk
Beatriz Monteavaro: X-Star And The Super Weird Aliens
Beatriz Monteavaro: Quiet Village
Monitor 2
Mariana Mendoza (Fig.M): Real Estate Postcards
Pedestal
EXILE Books Free Zine Project: Assorted newsprint zines
Catch and Release: March 7, 2022
The 181 is honored to host Eloise Fairbrother as an art intern
11-14 March 2022
Eloise:
is a junior in high school in Connecticut
loves all things art
is interested in going into film.
4 March 2022 Pisgah National Forest
the 181 with American Vinyl Co.
Catch and Release: February 19, 2022
The 181 collective had its first onsite reference material session at Locust Projects, featuring materials curated by Orvokki from The Concern Newsstand.
A thing that seems to be true: Puncturing or perforating one dimension creates continuity in another
{Gibbous wanes the moon, Tom practices “Soldier’s Joy,” a meniscus can go up as well as down}
A SET OF ELEMENTS
Catch and Release: February 18, 2022
I Say We Get the Slate: Stanza One, 2022. Message in a bottle recorded by the 181 at Locust Projects and the Vagabond Hotel, February 19-20, 2022. Abby Donovan, Brandon Boan, Tom Hughes, Jason Rhodes
I Say We Get the Slate: Stanza Two, 2022. Message in a bottle recorded by the 181 at Locust Projects and the Vagabond Hotel, February 19-20, 2022. Abby Donovan, Brandon Boan, Tom Hughes, Jason Rhodes
I Say We Get the Slate: Coda Sustained, 2022. Message in a bottle recorded by the 181 at Locust Projects and the Vagabond Hotel, February 19-20, 2022. Abby Donovan, Brandon Boan, Tom Hughes, Jason Rhodes
I Say We Get the Slate: Chorus Refrains, 2022. Message in a bottle recorded by the 181 at Locust Projects and the Vagabond Hotel, February 19-20, 2022. Abby Donovan, Brandon Boan, Tom Hughes, Jason Rhodes
Photos by Alejandro Chavarria of World Red Eye
Catch and Release: February 12, 2022
“The Absolute Value of Infinity on its Side (O Dissipation)”
The 181 flows Curtis Creek
On February 17th, 2022 @ 10am EST, the 181 will gather on the forest floor somewhere around 1800 feet of elevation for a live sound composition with American Vinyl Co.
Amplified by wild trout waters and riffs of mountain laurel we are interested in the formation of pauses and the TRACE FOLD of folk timing.
Vibrations of river boulders and the many origins and ranges of what is receivable — for potentials we pause.
Sound: to measure the depth of water with a plummet, to prove, test, try. (from a dictionary I have copied but now cannot recall, this is apparently a very old word)
Sough: a sighing sound, as of wind in trees. In what is known as the Stanzaic Morte Arthur it has the sense of a swaying motion. In the old Icelandic it is the rushing sound of an eagle’s wings.
Does the term “ancient without beginning” automatically imply something which has not been preceded by non-existence? At any rate “existing to eternity without existing from eternity” is another thing entirely.
Rock Toss: trace disappearance>
A Bucketing Blue Ridge Slope: Or What Of Folk Exquisite Corpse:
Base camp tethers
Unto the dark void
Constellation mics
Climbing (down) a tree.
Current status of tree graft and garden shed
Rat Flash
(You may have heard we have a lot of walkie talkies)
Catch and Release.
Catch and Release: February 8, 2022
The Absolute Value of Infinity on its Side (Hi Ho Agnes Varda)
Re-investigations into syncopation from the 181’s site visit to Miami in October 2021.
Catch and Release: January 28, 2022
Under the Pleiades You and Me
Recorded by the 181 and Fiona in reflection of our attempts at triangulation without dimensional reduction, or, to put it another way, elegiac phase inversion.
CATCH and RELEASE: January 21, 2022
Bog Creek (what is above is below), 2021
Recorded by the 181 and Nimbus using a kite, the snow, some string, a gopro camera suspended in a spaghetti sauce jar filled with cold water, and a 130 degree hot spring source somewhere between the states of Oregon and Nevada
ABOUT THE 181 COLLECTIVE
As a collective the 181 is interested in composing situations that generate experiential spaces which expand, contract, or reassemble as information sloshes about. Imperfect approximations of the universe as a whole. Artists, a physicist/electronic engineer/musician, a mushroom forager/rockhound, and a former linotype operator—any attempts to formalize their practice they view with distress.
As far as they can tell, the 181 has been working together since 2007 when they found themselves gathered by the Pacific Ocean with a glim glam golden Q, roughly 10 yards of transparent lavender vinyl, and a broken hold on the sea’s reflection.
The collective members are Brandon Boan (Old Fort, NC), Abby Donovan and Tom Hughes (Eugene, OR and Newark, DE) and Jason Rhodes (Bend, OR)