Occupation: Artist Birth: July 23, 1977
When you get a critique, people think you're criticizing them but it's really an intellectual conversation. You can't get emotionally attached..
I realized [using my own voice] is what creates the performance in the performance art and that's what helps creates the distance for the viewers, li….
As artists, sometimes our work is chaotic; we don't easily communicate our needs to other people in a way that they understand..
You can talk yourself out of doing something if you start to think about, "How would this person see it, or that person see it?" So sometimes it's al….
Every artist's world is an individual experience and no one thing can prepare you. You have to go in and go where those roles lead you - just allow i….
Sometimes I just cringe. I can feel the emotion, that whole anxiety of being in this new world that I sort of evolved into. I would just do it, put i….
Sometimes you divorce a part of yourself to save yourself emotionally..
I remember when I first started putting things on the web and people were writing about it. I totally didn't keep up with what was going on because I….
If you want to be somewhere, you should go to that place and check it out..
I've been in some biennales, and some I haven't. I always like the idea of how you meet the curator, hang out, and figure out who you want to work wi….
I have the dream to continue being in an art context, but also be able to continue doing stuff in television on the web..
It's interesting how as an artist you keep evolving, but if you can get into the contemporary art space, if the works are in institutions and museums….
I feel like my perception has changed a little because when I was posting stuff online it was an extension of my studio and then it started getting s….
I'm actually looking for a gallery, but the thing is some galleries just want to show the video work and some are just interested in the 2-D work. It….
What really made me a performance artist was that I was able to step back and assess. I've always had [that ability], but it was coming to an underst….
When I stepped back from the gallery I was in a phase where I thought I wasn't going to be making work for a gallery context for a while. People were….
I think I'm aware of entering my late 30s versus being in my late 20s, when the web was coming out as this new thing. It reminds me of how people use….
I was trying to release emotions, exercise emotions, and then I entered the art world. Even after grad school, some of [the earlier works] were still….
I was in that generation where I was torn if you should put it on the web because you're giving it away for free but you also want people to see your….
If I have a piece that's solely based on the web and it's going to also exist in a gallery, it needs to exist in a gallery where it doesn't feel redu….
Even though the art world goes through trends, you do know that it'll come up again..