FEATURED ARTISTS
The Interlude chapter includes interviews with the following 8 critical creative practitioners. The descriptions below include their name and a hint from the interview that suggests a variety of realities regarding what happens between practice and theory.
BETWEEN THEORY AND PRACTICE:“I would be on the train reading, getting my life, getting mobilized. What I read was integrated into my mind and the way I work going forward.”
zakiyacollier.com
Zakiya processing papers in a client’s studio. Image courtesy of the artist.
BETWEEN THEORY AND PRACTICE:“Sometimes theory has a direct translation that can be made with the hands. Sometimes it’s indirect and percolates. Sometimes you see something that becomes a corpus of theory.”
lindarebeiz.com
Snapshot from Linda’s studio at 10 a.m. Images courtesy of the artist.
BETWEEN THEORY AND PRACTICE:“I’ve internalized so much of those readings. I spend 90% of the time there. One out of ten times, I will separate theory and practice and reflect on what that’s doing.”
rainembuscado.space
Rain’s studio at the University of Missouri’s School of Visual Studies. Image credit: Bianca Turner and Igor Arume. Image courtesy of the artist.
BETWEEN THEORY AND PRACTICE:“They’re extensions of each other — an immediate extension. I can’t imagine a separation.”
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Jelsen in his studio. Image courtesy of the artist.
BETWEEN THEORY AND PRACTICE:“I never could figure out how to make a visual from reading, thinking, and annotating. It can take 10 years to arrive at a place where I can make something from that.”
baseerakhan.com
Baseera working in her studio. Image courtesy of the artist.
BETWEEN THEORY AND PRACTICE:“I imagine some kind of magic because I’m getting the input and really reflecting the energy to my world.”
heesookwon.com
Image captured at Heesoo’s San Francisco studio while Mago Leymusoom (2002) was in production. Images courtesy of the artist.
BETWEEN THEORY AND PRACTICE:“Once I start to name the theory, I start to create this distance from my work. It starts to create this rubric. This rubric and the practical, material things that I’m trying to do don’t go naturally together.”
trytobegood.com
Fei sanding down one of the 28 domino pieces for the project, Our Good Bones, on her rooftop. Image courtesy of the artist.
BETWEEN THEORY AND PRACTICE:“It’s like riding a bus. You’re looking out the window and experiencing this passage of time and society. Of course, you can make your own theory. But it does feel like theory exists outside for me.”
annakwane.com
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