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