This Red Door presents:
The Art of the Artist Talk (Lightning Round) (video: part 2 of 2)
Wednesday, February 5th, 2014
The Art of the Artist Talk (Lightning Round)
MARTE KIESSLING
ZEFREY THROWELL
CHRISTOPHER GIANUNZIO
SARAH CHIPPS
DEBORAH JOHNSON
SEAN MCELROY
SARAH NELSON WRIGHT
DANA LEVY
COLIN TODD
DAVID COLOSI
JULIE MCKIM
SHANE HOPE
Hosted by BLAKE CARRINGTON
Navigating the etiquette of talking about your work can be daunting. One should come off as confident but not pushy, concise but not too “pitchy”. Is this a casual situation where your partner is asking about your work just to be polite? Or is it acceptable to give something approaching an actual answer? Deflection is the order of the day… better to just talk up a friend’s work instead and avoid the politics of narcissism altogether.
Being invited to give a formal talk, though, is typically seen as a pleasure. You get official sanction to feed that narcissist tendency, to speak of your work at a depth that perhaps others haven’t written about or noticed. There it is, a personal trajectory unfolding over years, full of nuance and evolution. Brilliant.
If you have the time, that is.
For “The Art of the Artist Talk (Lightning Round)”, 12 artists will each give a 5-minute presentation that is ostensibly a talk about their work. Maybe it’ll be more of a performance or something, or the creation of a new work. Not sure, that’s up to them.
And when the timer hits five-oh-oh they’ll get the long-Oscar-acceptance-speech treatment. But instead of violins I’ll have some doom metal and noise music.
This Red Door 2014
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