annual rings since 1982



Emmy Catedral was born in Butuan and raised in Iloilo and Queens. She works in photography, installation, sculpture, & video. Her work has been shown at The Queens Museum of Art, The Center For Book Arts, Flux Factory, LaMama Experimental Theater Club, The New York Historical Society, and various unnamed, temporarily named, and virtual nowheres. She works in SoHo and lives in Spanish Harlem, where she builds second avenues with an old PC. Emmy wants to go to grad school.

her email is (no s p a c e s) e m m y c a t e d r a l a t g m a i l d o t c o m

RECENT:

This Case of Conscience: Spiritual Flushing and The Remonstrance, The Queens Museum of Art
with Takashi Horisaki, Sara Rahbar, Jose Ruiz & Tattfoo Tan

curated by Valerie Smith & Hitomi Iwasaki
April 6 - June 29, 2008
Opening Reception: Sunday, May 18 (3-6pm)



NEWS:

+ Arts and Ideas from WNYC New York Public Radio: Queens Museum Has New Take on Flushing Remonstrance

+ Poet and painter Thomas Fink has written a review of Eileen Tabios' SILENCES: An Autobiography of Loss over at Otoliths. There is a brief mention of my legal pad project from 2005 that Eileen generously wrote about for the online magazine Our Own Voice.

+ NYNYNY, Flux Factory (Curated by Jean Barberis, Melanie Cohn, and Chen Tamir)
December 14, 2007 through January 2008 ( www.fluxfactory.org )

+ PERFORMA TV
9:30 PM, November 14
Poets Paolo Javier and Tim Peterson investigate the genre of literary biography as formed collaboratively through the virtual camera/mirror stage. In this interview-poem, the "self" of the writer emerges as the provisional creation of improvised acts of performance. They will be joined by artists Emmy Catedral, Ernest Concepcion, and Mike Estabrook to transcribe the history of this literary self-in-process with big squeaky magic markers. ( Part of Ronnie Bass' internet video project, conceived for Performa 07 )

+ The New York Times, June 16, 2006 Art in Review; No More Drama: The Saga Continues by Holland Cotter

+ OOV Literary Ezine, June 2005 Emmy Catedral's Invitation to her Dances in the Dark by Eileen R. Tabios




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