Paying For It | Interview with Sook Yin Lee Canadian Icon, Filmmaker & Performance Artist скачать в хорошем качестве

Paying For It | Interview with Sook Yin Lee Canadian Icon, Filmmaker & Performance Artist

I cannot thank Sook-Yin Lee enough for her time and insights. This one is very special for me. Growing up, I spent a LOT of time in front of my TV. Like most of my waking moments. It was truly my best friend. And so local television mattered to me deeply, it made me feel connected to a bigger picture, to the real world, to the kind of community and lifestyle I dreamed of joining. Big city life. Art and culture. Music. Media. Possibility. That whole thing was possible for me because growing up in Toronto I was able to see it physically in media - like movies and shows that were filmed here were everything to me. If the houses and the schools looked like the places in my life - I WAS OBSESSED. So Canadian concent made me who I am - Degrassi, Mr Dressup, Ginger Snaps, Are You Afraid of the Dark. And of course, Much Music. The place you could visit in real life and get a wrist band and be IN TV! So when I say that Sook-Yin Lee’s legacy and work on MuchMusic and beyond shaped me on a subconscious, deeply artistic level, thats really an understatement. That’s why, when she talks in this interview about how all of her work is really performance art, I honestly died. That is exactly the kind of art I’m trying to make and it felt so good to just get a glimpse at her artistic thought process. And of course — I loved Paying For It. Chester Brown’s work is so rad and so cool. I’ve seen it in museums across North America and the idea of this double act of portraiture Sook-Yin Lee talks about in this interview — like taking his comic (from his perspective, about paying for it) and then adding her as a central character: is so freaking cool and makes the work so....fun and poignant and feely. That reframing, that collaboration across mediums and memory and lived experience is fresh, risky, generous and what I really love about what art can do! Especially filmmaking. After experimenting with performance art on reality television myself through Big Brother Canada, I went on to study auto-ethnographic fiction and performance-based storytelling at McMaster. So yeah — this conversation is huge for me personally - but also I hope you enjoy it as much as I did! This interview also marks the beginning of a new series for me: On Film — where I’ll be talking to filmmakers, production people and movie lovers about the projects they’re passionate about and the ideas behind them. If this all sounds up your alley follow ‪@flatshanlon‬ for more !