Occupation: Artist Birth: July 23, 1977
You can dwell on things, and if you open your eyes and pay attention to it, those things start popping up around you..
I've learned that I need to learn how to direct without making the person distracted and keeping them comfortable, and pay more attention to lighting..
I cast people from right around me. I was at my alma mater. It's special to have most of the graduate students in it [and] one professor, because I f….
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….
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….
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….
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….
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….
Even though the art world goes through trends, you do know that it'll come up again..
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 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….
Sometimes you divorce a part of yourself to save yourself emotionally..
If you want to be somewhere, you should go to that place and check it out..
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….
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….
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….
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 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….
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..
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….