hip – hip!<\/h1><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\ngetting to know the graduates<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n
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<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\nGraduating Student:<\/strong> Feral Fagiola (S 21)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n<\/div>\nWho, or what is your work in conversation with?<\/strong><\/p>\nI collaborate often with industrial materials, processes, and decaying architectures. I focus on the body and its relationships to these physical and implied structures through labor, production, desire, consumption, etc. My work usually has a kinky or erotic bent, so it\u2019s also in conversation with fetish, BDSM, and pornography.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n
<\/div>\nHow did VCFA change your approach to thinking about your studio practice and your community at home? <\/strong><\/p>\nThe most impactful moments of my experience at VCFA were connections with people. The residencies gave me the opportunity to connect with people all over the world and each incredible peer, faculty, visiting artist or scholar shared something that moved me and became vital to my practice.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n
<\/div>\nWho were your Artist-Mentors?<\/strong><\/p>\nMiranda Lash<\/a><\/p>\nEric Fuertes<\/a><\/p>\nTamara Santibanez<\/a><\/p>\nMark Jeffery<\/a><\/p>\nKaren Lofgren <\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n<\/div>\n
<\/div>Feral Fagiola 2021<\/small><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\nWhat was on your play list during your time at VCFA?<\/strong><\/p>\nPornography – The Cure <\/a><\/p>\nThe Litanies of Satan – Diamanda Galas<\/a><\/p>\nThe Downward Spiral – Nine Inch Nails<\/a><\/p>\nLittle Earthquakes – Tori Amos<\/a><\/p>\nAnd anything I can dance to…<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n
<\/div>\nWho are your favorite protagonists in fiction?<\/strong><\/p>\nDolores of Westworld<\/a> or one of the many amorphous characters from a Kathy Acker story (maybe Laure from My Mother: Demonology<\/a>).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
<\/div>Feral Fagiola 2021<\/small><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nWhat is your favorite bird?<\/strong><\/p>\nCrow<\/a> or Vulture<\/a><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n<\/div>\nWhat, or who, should you like to be if not yourself?<\/strong><\/p>\nI\u2019d just like to be a better version of myself and maybe in another world. I\u2019d like to be happy, free, very hydrated, and not stressed.<\/p>\n
All I\u2019ve ever wanted to be is an artist.<\/p>\n
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<\/div>Feral Fagiola 2021<\/small><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nWhere do you live?<\/strong><\/p>\nI currently live in Louisville, Kentucky<\/a>, but my heart is scattered in a few places.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
getting to know the graduates<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n
<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\nGraduating Student:<\/strong> Feral Fagiola (S 21)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n Who, or what is your work in conversation with?<\/strong><\/p>\n I collaborate often with industrial materials, processes, and decaying architectures. I focus on the body and its relationships to these physical and implied structures through labor, production, desire, consumption, etc. My work usually has a kinky or erotic bent, so it\u2019s also in conversation with fetish, BDSM, and pornography.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n How did VCFA change your approach to thinking about your studio practice and your community at home? <\/strong><\/p>\n The most impactful moments of my experience at VCFA were connections with people. The residencies gave me the opportunity to connect with people all over the world and each incredible peer, faculty, visiting artist or scholar shared something that moved me and became vital to my practice.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n Who were your Artist-Mentors?<\/strong><\/p>\n Miranda Lash<\/a><\/p>\n Eric Fuertes<\/a><\/p>\n Tamara Santibanez<\/a><\/p>\n Mark Jeffery<\/a><\/p>\n Karen Lofgren <\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div> What was on your play list during your time at VCFA?<\/strong><\/p>\n Pornography – The Cure <\/a><\/p>\n The Litanies of Satan – Diamanda Galas<\/a><\/p>\n The Downward Spiral – Nine Inch Nails<\/a><\/p>\n Little Earthquakes – Tori Amos<\/a><\/p>\n And anything I can dance to…<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n Who are your favorite protagonists in fiction?<\/strong><\/p>\n Dolores of Westworld<\/a> or one of the many amorphous characters from a Kathy Acker story (maybe Laure from My Mother: Demonology<\/a>).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n What is your favorite bird?<\/strong><\/p>\n Crow<\/a> or Vulture<\/a><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n What, or who, should you like to be if not yourself?<\/strong><\/p>\n I\u2019d just like to be a better version of myself and maybe in another world. I\u2019d like to be happy, free, very hydrated, and not stressed.<\/p>\n All I\u2019ve ever wanted to be is an artist.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n Where do you live?<\/strong><\/p>\n I currently live in Louisville, Kentucky<\/a>, but my heart is scattered in a few places.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n<\/div>Feral Fagiola 2021<\/small><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>Feral Fagiola 2021<\/small><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>Feral Fagiola 2021<\/small><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n