In March, I was invited by Colby Caldwell, Director and co-founder of REVOLVE, to present a talk as part of their FIRST DRAFT series. Revolve is an open space where artists, writers, scholars, the creative community, and audiences can come together to foster inquiry and expression, learn new methods and media, exchange ideas, laugh, dream, brainstorm, celebrate and complain.
Here's a little bit about my talk:
"The methods with which artists, practitioners, and makers approach their studio + creative practice runs the gamut of a rigorous schedule to gentle suggestion, from reading and listening to repeated mark-making. In examining tactics used by other artists in their practice acquired through research, interviews, and her own creative process, lydia see will discuss how the studio is not simply an incubator for production but is a durational work in and of itself.
The presentation will include a slideshow of works which occupy the space between: in studio practice, in process, and fully resolved, and will encourage a dialog about what constitutes "the work."
Attendees will receive an artist's proof copy ofPractice/Process 1 - the first in a quarterly series of tactical + critical instigation for the multidisciplinary creative.
To see work that will be shown in conjunction with lydia's talk at the project space + orange space go HERE."
15 Questions:
1. Where have you been?
2. Where are you going?
3. Are you spending enough time?
4. What is in the shadows?
5. What do you know?
6. What do you not know?
7. What do you want?
8. When?
9. Order or chaos?
10. What is your first instinct?
11. Why is it important?
12. Can you do it?
13. Has it served it's purpose?
14. Who has been a part of it?
15. At what point has it ceased being useful?