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