Working (it) Out 8 Nicole Miller: Conducting Subjectivity

I met this week with video and installation artist Nicole Miller. Miller and I discuss her year and a half residency with LACMA’s Redland’s Art + Film Lab and commission to create a project in collaboration with community contributors from neighborhoods around Los Angeles, as well as her recent show at Koenig and Clinton in New York. Miller considers audience from the conception stage of her projects, and for this artist, the audience completes the work. We delve into the therapeutic effects woven into her practice, and her desires to evoke a bodily and empathic response from her viewers.

Music: Chromatics – At Your Door

4:00 Laughing Yoga

5:45 The audience completes the work

6:05 Show and Tell

7:42 The Borrowers

9:50 Anthony Aquarius the Jimi Hendrix impersonator and artistic witchery

12:25 “David” and the phantom limb

15:25 Invoking active viewing and bodily response

17:45 Therapeutic Practice for the Artist and Subject

19:15 Remapping the history of Hollywood and Black Actors via uncovering overlooked narratives.

21:40 The Artist as Conductor of her practice

23:14 “Daggering” and Ballet