Join Kris, Jacob and Lisa along with guests Ruth Jeyaveeran and Tracy Le as we chat with Ilona Szwarc about her work during Field Residency! We discuss the different experiences Ilona had at Yale and SVA and her latest project on Seasonal Color in Fashion. This work continues her long term exploration of “the expert” in art, fashion, “beauty,” and photography wherein Ilona takes on the role of the expert, casting “look alike” models along side her to create images reflecting the expert who forms and molds pupils to their image. Some of the topics we discuss are:

The first popular book on the seasons is: "Color: The essence of you" by Suzanne Caygill (We HIGHLY recommend checking this out, it’s a wild ride).https://www.amazon.com/Color-Essence-You-Suzanne-Caygill/dp/0890871957

Johannes Itten was a painter and the first person to use the term Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter as it related to color and it was the foundation for the development of seasonal color analysis.

Shame, trauma, and healing are at the core of SECRETO, a years-long project by María Luisa Portuondo Vila. Field Projects is honored to unveil the first book produced from this work at our gallery NEXT WEEK, so stay tuned and you can meet with María Luisa yourself! Secrets grip us, and we get into grief, love, death, sex, and abuse in this deeply human conversation. We discuss María Luisa’s early transition from private theater to community centered public works, and what it means to make projects for the public. Ghostly, haunting thoughts of the pandemic time came together in María Luisa ’s project HABITĀR, whose second iteration was completed at Field Projects residency in 2021. This enabled her to make a book that is materially outside the dominant institutional cannon of paper-centric men’s publications! We also cover questions around audience participation and how to make institutions chase you (not the other way around!) through process, not product.

PLEASE JOIN US FOR the *SECRETO Book Launch Wednesday October 12, 2022!*

Our final take away: Reflecting and openness is not related to money and can’t be commercialized, so it is a responsible, anti-market act that helps to better yourself and your community. Be open and love yourself and everyone else you can :)

CODA: Perfect Lovers discussion.

TW: There is a brief discussion of childhood sexual abuse around 52 mins, so if that’s not for you, we’ll see you next time!

SHOW NOTES

María Luisa Portuondo Vila

@mariap.vila

http://www.mariapvila.com/aboutme

MERCURY STORE Theater residency in Brooklyn: https://mercurystore.com/what-we-do/

Joseph Beuys on Social Sculpture: (and was it Medieval?): https://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/s/social-sculpture

Book rec from Maria: Discourses: Conversations in Postmodern Art and Culture (1990)

https://www.google.com/books/edition/Discourses/4pKnyqHfySMC?hl=en

Us

Kris Racaniello @krisrac (+for art): @krisracworks

Jacob Rhodes @jacobrhodes74

Field Projects @fieldprojects

www.fieldprojectsgallery.com

Open Call

http://www.fieldprojectsgallery.com/open-call

Field Residency

http://www.fieldprojectsgallery.com/field-residency

Hand-made paper! Ancient Symposia! Bandages! Jade Suits! Cowboys!

Today, Jacob and Kris sit down for a post-Spring/Break interview with artist Fay Ku. Fay was Field Project’s featured artist at Spring Break this year in Axonometric Tongue. Ku’s immersive, axonometric installation proposed a radical alternative to the hegemonic eye of single point perspective. We discuss the ins and outs of Spring Break Art Fair and why this fair is one of the best you can participate in as an artist.

SHOW NOTES

Fay Ku

www.fayku.com/

@fay.ku

@springbreakartshow

Check out Fay Ku’s work in: Axonometric Tongue: https://springbreakartfair.com/collections/jacob-rhodes-kris-racaniello

Us

Kris Racaniello @krisrac (+for art): @krisracworks

Jacob Rhodes @jacobrhodes74

Field Projects @fieldprojects

www.fieldprojectsgallery.com

Open Call

http://www.fieldprojectsgallery.com/open-call

Field Residency

http://www.fieldprojectsgallery.com/field-residency