Today join Field Projects founder Jacob Rhodes in a discussion with Lydia McCarthy about her photo and video based art practice. We touch on hereditary mental Illness, alternate realities, spiritualities, psychedelics, the connection that photography has to reality, practical effects, VHS vs Beta, reality TV, and as always vulnerability.
SHOW NOTES
Lydia McCarthy @lydiamccarthy
“Thats Facts” @thatsfacts2020
Man Ray’s “Larmes (Tears)” www.getty.edu/art/collection/object/1043YV
Lydia McCarthy’s “Glass Tears” https://www.instagram.com/p/Ce6G_kkrKZJ/
Lesbian Vampire Horrorotica film’s (based on Sheridan le Fanu's novella Carmilla) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesbian_vampire#:~:text=Lesbian%20vampirism%20is%20a%20trope,censored%20realm%20of%20social%20realism
Practical Effects https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Practical_effect#:~:text=Gunfire%2C%20bullet%20wounds%2C%20rain%2C,also%20examples%20of%20practical%20effects.
“The Brood” by David Conenberg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brood
Alejandro Jodorowsky (Chilean-French artist) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alejandro_Jodorowsky
“Baise-moi, (Rape/Fuck Me)” by Virginie Despentes and Coralie Trinh Thi
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baise-moi
H.P. Lovecraft https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._P._Lovecraft
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