“Under Catherine’s orchestration, the audience becomes the landscape making for an amusing commentary of interpretation and audience’s appetite to be informed.”
press The Photographic Journal - Stillness in Motion RIKA Magazine - Emerging Artists SAMANIA Asymmetric Magazine - Interview: Ania Catherine
Vogue Arabia - Alayna designer on its collaboration with performance artists SAMANIA
Art and Cake LA - Book Club: Going Native at Durden and Ray
Gender in Dance - Ania Catherine Talks Gender Norms and Creative Freedom
Neolaia (Greece) - SAMANIA Artist Duo talks to Neolaia
Williamsburg Art Nexus - Meet Ania Catherine
Decoded Magazine - Jamie Jones and Kate Simko release video for One Time Game
VICE - Jamie Jones Gets All Fancy with Kate Simko in Orchestral Collab
beatMASH Magazine - Los mejores videos de 2015
Magnetic Mag - Watch Jamie Jones & Kate Simko Collab w/ Jem Cooke & London Electronic Orchestra
Huffington Post - 5 Amazing Ways Women and Girls are Breaking Gender Stereotypes Worldwide
Austere Magazine - The Enigma of SAMANIA
Bast Magazine - SAMANIA
Huffington Post - Video Art Piece by LSE Students Will Make You Question Your Assumptions About the Veil
LSE Engenderings - How does freedom dress?
film festivals
Mexico City International Dance Film Festival - Mexico City, MX (2017) BIDEODROMO International Experimental Film and Video Festival - Bilbao, Spain (2017) Portland Dance Film Festival - Portland, USA (2017) Nola Edge Film and Live Art Festival - New Orleans, USA (2017)
Out Web Fest - Los Angeles, USA (2017)
ScreenDance Festival - Stockholm, Sweden (2017)
Braga International Video Dance Festival - Braga, Portugal (2017)
International VideoDance Festival of Mexico City - Mexico City, Mexico (2017)
FRONTDOC 2016 - Aosta, Italy (2016)
New Urbanism Film Festival - Los Angeles, CA (2016)
Barcelona Planet International Film Festival - Barcelona, ES (2016)
Fine Arts Film Festival Santa Barbara - Santa Barbara, USA (2016)
Très Court International Film Festival - Paris, France (2016)
Music Dancing in Films Festival - Tallinn, Estonia (2016)
British Film Institute: London LGBT Film Festival - London, UK (2014)
London Lesbian Film Festival - Ontario, Canada (2014)
Inside Out LGBT Film Festival - Toronto, Canada (2014)
GAZE International LGBT Film Festival - Dublin, Ireland (2014)
Paris International Lesbian & Feminist Film Festival - Paris, France (2014)
Some Prefer Cake: Bologna Lesbian Film Festival - Bologna, Italy (2014)
Queer Film Festival MEZIPATRA - Prague, Czech Republic (2014)
DanceLive Festival of Contemporary Dance - Aberdeen, Scotland (2014)
Downtown Film Festival Los Angeles - Los Angeles, USA (2013)
group shows
Unpresidented: The Inaugural Show at LACDA | Los Angeles (January 2017)
Ninth Street Independent Film Center | San Francisco (January 2017)
Electron Salon at Los Angeles Center for Digital Art | (July 2016)
September at Los Angeles Center for Digital Art | (September 2015)
International Museum of Women | (September 2014)
Degree Art Gallery | London (September 2014)
Strand Gallery | London (August 2014)
Eight Members Club Gallery | London (July 2014)
Blackall Studios Gallery | London (May 2014)
Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design | London (April 2014)
live performance
"A Life" solo performance for Inverse Performance Art Festival | Harold J. Miossi Gallery (September 2017) Site-specific performance for LA Weekly's ARTOPIA at Union Station - Los Angeles, USA (August 2017) Performance with Nicola Collie at the 14th Factory - Los Angeles, USA (June 2017)
Improvisation with cellist Trevor Handy in "Word on the Street" performance series - Los Angeles, USA (May 2017)
Los Angeles Dance Festival at Theatre Raymond Kabbaz (May 2017)
Midnight Roses at Nous Tous Gallery - Los Angeles, USA (May 2017) Book Club: Going Native at Durden and Ray Gallery | Los Angeles (May 2017)
NEW SHOES at Highways Performance Space - Los Angeles (February 2017)
San Francisco Movement Arts Festival - San Francisco (January 2017)
Renditions at Montserrat - Los Angeles (November 2016)
ABANDONED - Los Angeles (July 2016)
High Voltage - Venice (June 2016)
Jardin deLArte - Los Angeles (May 2016)
WAXWorks - Brooklyn (May 2016)
San Francisco Movement Arts Festival - San Francisco (January 2016)
MAX 10 - Venice (December 2015)
AGORA COLLECTIVE: The Watiing Room - Berlin (August 2015)
3AM - Berlin (July 2015)
Millennia Scope Gala Post Oscars Party - Hollywood (February 2015)
Vee-I-KuhL Contemporary Art Showcase - Los Angeles (November 2014)
AXIS Artist Showcase - Hollywood (October, 2014)
"TIMELESS: A Musical" @ Peacock Theatre - London (May 2014)
"Through the Ages" @ Peacock Theatre - London (April 2014)
academia / speaking
International Meeting on Video Dance - Valencia, Spain (September 2017) NastyWomenLA Conversation Guest Artist | MINE Studios (June 2017)
GENDERFEST - Athens, Greece (January 2017)
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Feminisms Here and Now Conference (December 2016)
School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) - London | HYSTERIA art periodical launch (April 2014)
London School of Economics (LSE) Gender Institute 20th Anniversary Conference (May 2014)
Chapman University - "Sapere Aude" Interdisciplinary Journal (April 2014)