Today join Field Projects founder Jacob Rhodes in a discussion with Lydia McCarthy about her photo and video based art practice. We touch on hereditary mental Illness, alternate realities, spiritualities, psychedelics, the connection that photography has to reality, practical effects, VHS vs Beta, reality TV, and as always vulnerability.
 
SHOW NOTES
Lydia McCarthy @lydiamccarthy
https://lydiamccarthy.com/
“Thats Facts” @thatsfacts2020 
 
Man Ray’s “Larmes (Tears)” www.getty.edu/art/collection/object/1043YV 
Lydia McCarthy’s “Glass Tears” https://www.instagram.com/p/Ce6G_kkrKZJ/
Lesbian Vampire Horrorotica film’s (based on Sheridan le Fanu's novella Carmilla) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesbian_vampire#:~:text=Lesbian%20vampirism%20is%20a%20trope,censored%20realm%20of%20social%20realism 
Practical Effects https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Practical_effect#:~:text=Gunfire%2C%20bullet%20wounds%2C%20rain%2C,also%20examples%20of%20practical%20effects. 
“The Brood” by David Conenberg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brood 
Alejandro Jodorowsky (Chilean-French artist) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alejandro_Jodorowsky 
“Baise-moi, (Rape/Fuck Me)” by Virginie Despentes and Coralie Trinh Thi
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baise-moi
H.P. Lovecraft https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._P._Lovecraft 
Reality TV https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality_television