Bodies of Vision, Bodies of Sound
“Composer and musician T. Griffin scored the film alongside the small production team, developing a deeply sensitive response through an eclectic range of influences to capture its many incarnations. Because The Proposal is genre-defying: contracting and expanding from deeply private spaces to highly public platforms, it has been described as a ‘docu-thriller,’ a ‘post-mortem love triangle,’ and “an investigation and an exhibition, a love letter and a rival’s riposte, a protest and an olive branch” (Robert Abele, The Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2019). And always at Magid’s side, the score deftly traverses the winding roads and tributaries of her shapeshifting tale, peeking into the past and peering towards possible futures.”
Creative Non-fiction | in Collaboration with Constellation Records
He’s Not Like the Other Dads
“From the signature low-fi world of Teenage Stepdad – which appears to exist inside a stuttering late-1980’s television set like the trapped ghosts of Poltergeist - Seize the Memes is an original instruction series for DIY digital artwork that “encourages you to reject any and all art instruction. Seriously.” Aesthetically, think: a community college art teacher in the Stranger Things universe, straddling a curious yet comfortable line between Bob Ross and a benevolent Hunter S. Thompson.
Teenage Stepdad is the pseudonym and brainchild of Nathan Sims, a California-bred/Arizona-based digital meme artist known for a distinctly Internet-ready brand of Marxist philosophy, raunchy humour, and a pantheon of fictional characters engaged in some pretty strained family relations.”
Interview | in Collaboration with Means TV
Resistance and Solidarity in the Garment Worker Movement
“Women’s greater participation in the workforce and in public life was foundational to this new school of thought [the ‘New Woman’]. And it was in this political environment that the suffrage movement became a primary cause upon which the ‘New Woman’ was oriented.
While the suffrage movement focused primarily on women’s equal participation in the political establishment, the workers’ movement was gaining enormous momentum adjacent to this – causing a class reckoning that revealed these inherent inequalities.”
Critical Historical Essay (SITUATED Magazine, March 2021)
Homage to Uncertain Futures
“I think back to all the things I saw growing up, idly staring out the front room window of my house in San Francisco, on a similarly quiet block on the outskirts of the City center, between the eucalyptus-scented park and the violent, cold waves of the Pacific ocean. Raccoons slipping between the dull spotlights of the street lamps, the dense fog blurring the globes of light. A brilliant red comet shooting across the sky and exploding at the end as I chatted on the phone with a friend. Our murdered neighbor in a white body bag, shuttled into an ambulance, the police car lights casting red and blue projections into our living room late into the night. Solitary grandfathers in house slippers walking the block every day around the same time, for years. Minor car accidents.”
Personal Essay | published on SITUATED Magazine
Homegrown and Handmade:
Paola McKenna
“‘[Folklore] involves all the traditions that make the ‘folk’ who they are. It’s not formal. You don’t learn it through formal education. You learn it in a verbal way, or show people how to do it. So that opens the meaning of the word.’ Even food, language, music, recipes - ‘that’s the ‘lore’ that the ‘folk’ are passing on.’ If a new language was the goal to achieve in Ireland, moving to a Spanish-speaking country was like finding home again. They were also drawn to the lifestyle – laid back, slower, sunnier. In Madrid, Paola appreciates the diversity and the sustaining resonance with Latin American culture.”
Artist Profile | in Collaboration with Paola McKenna / Studio Folklore
IN THESE STRANGE TIMES: Science Gallery Dublin
“While the installation’s shiny plastic exterior and nylon appendages are aesthetically techno-scientific, there is a distinctly zoologic uncanniness to it, like a living taxonomical specimen of a body breathing and pumping blood. Its tubes (veins?), membrane (skin?), and air (breath?) nod to our own patient physical embodiments; we can relate to these basic mechanisms, the body existing behind the windowpane in safe distance from public life, affecting and being affected by the world of data we absorb. Physically built into the piece, as well, is a reflection on intimacy, proximity, and one fundamentally crucial element at the heart of the COVID-19 crisis: air.”
Critical Response | in Collaboration with Science Gallery Dublin
Chef Series with Thiago Guerra
“Thiago has wanted to be a chef since childhood and food-making is in his lineage; from family-owned restaurants, to his mother and grandmother teaching him techniques. ‘My whole family are cooks.’ When he went to culinary college in Brazil, he spent six years studying French cuisine and aspired to be a French-specialized chef.
Then there came an opportunity to enter a food competition, and his school supported him to directly work under a Japanese chef and prepare for it. Now in Ireland, Thiago has now been at Yamamori for over 6 years - but has a mastery of the French traditions at his disposal.”
Artist Profile of chef Thiago Guerra (published on SITUATED / Yamamori News, April 2019)