Arranging Tangerines presented by Lydian Stater

In this origin story episode, Alexandro and Joseph discuss how this podcast came into fruition and their excitement about the NFT space while addressing some very important questions from listeners.

In this origin story episode, Alexandro and Joseph discuss how this podcast came into fruition and their excitement about the NFT space while addressing some very important questions from listeners.

In the second part of our interview with Alisa Yang,we take a deeper dive into her practice through a discussion of the value of care labor, the connection between durational projects and rest, the similarities between collage and filmmaking, the human condition of trying to make sense of what comes before and after, and the changing landscape for feminist artists after the #metoo movement.

Alisa Yang is an antidisciplinary artist and independent filmmaker with a research based practice exploring alternative ways art can be a currency for cake. Centering the body as a site of geopolitical and social conditionings, she works across video, installation, and situational specific projects in orienting oneself towards social change. Her films focus on the experiences of Asian women navigating cultural identity and generational trauma, mining personal narratives with humor and vulnerability.

Yang earned her BFA from Art Center of Design in 2009 and MFA at the University of Michigan in 2016. Her work has been exhibited and screened internationally in places like MoMAPS1, Aesthetica Art Prize, New Mexico Museum of Art, and Beijing’s Art Nova 100 with reviews in LA Times, Hyperallergic, and Huffington Post. Recipient of fellowships like Yaddo, Uniondoc Summer Lab, Artpace San Antonio, and Vermont Studios. Her awards include the 2018 Special Arte Laguna Prize, Best Regional Filmmaker at 2017 Ann Arbor Film Festival, and the 2017 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival Golden Reel Awards for Short Documentary.

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Chronic Stillness: Wieteke Heldens & Alisa Yang at Lydian Stater

TLPS: A Group NFT Exhibition at Lydian Stater

Alisa Yang sits down and discusses her work in the NFT space, the importance of self-care while supporting one's community, the sky as a marker for time and place, and the relationship between activism and art.

Yang earned her BFA from Art Center of Design in 2009 and MFA at the University of Michigan in 2016. Her work has been exhibited and screened internationally in places like MoMAPS1, Aesthetica Art Prize, New Mexico Museum of Art, and Beijing’s Art Nova 100 with reviews in LA Times, Hyperallergic, and Huffington Post. Recipient of fellowships like Yaddo, Uniondoc Summer Lab, Artpace San Antonio, and Vermont Studios. Her awards include the 2018 Special Arte Laguna Prize, Best Regional Filmmaker at 2017 Ann Arbor Film Festival, and the 2017 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival Golden Reel Awards for Short Documentary.

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Chronic Stillness: Wieteke Heldens & Alisa Yang at Lydian Stater

TLPS: A Group NFT Exhibition at Lydian Stater

In this second segment of our discussion with Catalina Tuca, we talk about the importance of objects, the Baader–Meinhof phenomenon, trying to do the impossible, being a boss, and Alexandro’s obsession with transfiguration.

Catalina is a multidisciplinary Visual Artist, educator, and independent curator, working in the intersections of geographic identities, collective memories, and hybrid systems of collaboration and participation through existing technologies.

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The Fall The Show Exhibition at Lydian Stater

TLPS: A Group NT Exhibition at Lydian Stater

Catalina Tuca discusses her recent NFT works from “The Sensitive Project,” the process of describing emotions, the potential of collaborative economics in an art space, and community building in online spaces.

Catalina is a multidisciplinary Visual Artist, educator, and independent curator, working in the intersections of geographic identities, collective memories, and hybrid systems of collaboration and participation through existing technologies.

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The Fall The Show Exhibition at Lydian Stater

TLPS: A Group NT Exhibition at Lydian Stater

In this episode, we take a deeper dive into Anika Todd’s practice, the process of telling stories while exposing authorship, site-responsive residencies, and the expanded possibilities of co-opted public and private space.

Anika Todd (b.1992, Boston, MA) received her BFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design, and her MFA from The University of Texas at Austin. Todd is a sculptor/media artist investigating landscape and ownership; Todd’s work functions through acts of trespass -- simultaneously enacting and challenging systems that oppress, compartmentalize, and own in order to control. She has created site-specific installations in the US and abroad. Her work has been presented in solo exhibitions at VisArts Center, Richmond, VA and Co-Lab Gallery, Austin, TX featured in the Washington Post (2018) and Glasstire (2019) respectively. She was the recipient of a City of Austin Cultural Art Council Award (2019) and the Godine Travel Award (2017). She has been selected to participate in numerous residencies including Salem Art Works (2017), Haystack School of Craft and Design (2018), and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2019).

Links:

The Fall The Show Exhibition at Lydian Stater

TLPS: A Group NT Exhibition at Lydian Stater

Anika Todd discusses her NFT works in the “TLPS” group NFT exhibition, the failure of photogrammetry to capture the essence of a person, the beauty of coincidental time markers, and how sculpture can occupy virtual spaces.

Anika Todd (b.1992, Boston, MA) received her BFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design, and her MFA from The University of Texas at Austin. Todd is a sculptor/media artist investigating landscape and ownership; Todd’s work functions through acts of trespass -- simultaneously enacting and challenging systems that oppress, compartmentalize, and own in order to control. She has created site-specific installations in the US and abroad. Her work has been presented in solo exhibitions at VisArts Center, Richmond, VA and Co-Lab Gallery, Austin, TX featured in the Washington Post (2018) and Glasstire (2019) respectively. She was the recipient of a City of Austin Cultural Art Council Award (2019) and the Godine Travel Award (2017). She has been selected to participate in numerous residencies including Salem Art Works (2017), Haystack School of Craft and Design (2018), and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2019).

Links:

The Fall The Show Exhibition at Lydian Stater

TLPS: A Group NT Exhibition at Lydian Stater