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<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\nGraduating Student:<\/strong> Julie Krishnaswami (S 21)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\nI began my final Semester researching how female nominees speak before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee (SJC). Treating the SJC as an employer, my work involved an intense amount of research into SJC hearings to understand labor norms that presently exist in the form of threads to the recent past. I created an archive to organize my sources and materials and managed these items to be converted to art materials. As I dug into these materials, I found language\u2014words, phrases, mannerisms, grammar\u2014an effective vehicle for understanding gendered history, labor norms, power rituals, and other practices that undergird employment relationships and dynamics. And this language continues to permeate everyday speech. It has the power to even obscure and render speakers and subjects invisible. As a result, language and its organization became my form, material, and content. Thus, I have created multiple lists of significant words and concepts that I plan to exhibit.<\/em><\/p>\nIn my process paper, I discuss how translation theories inform my performance-based work. I also analyze specific art pieces for insights into my practice.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n<\/div>\nWho, or what is your work in conversation with?<\/strong><\/p>\nMary Kelly<\/a><\/p>\nTaryn Simon<\/a><\/p>\nAndrea Fraser<\/a><\/p>\nMark Lombardi<\/a><\/p>\nPope. L<\/a><\/p>\nAdrian Piper<\/a><\/p>\nStephanie Syjuco<\/a><\/p>\nCameron Rowland<\/a><\/p>\nMoyra Davey<\/a><\/p>\nGroup Material – Doug Ashford & Julie Ault<\/a><\/p>\nSharon Hayes<\/a><\/p>\nSara Ahmed<\/a><\/p>\nMaggie Nelson<\/a><\/p>\nLucy R. Lippard<\/a><\/p>\nClaire Bishop<\/a><\/p>\nGuy Debord<\/a><\/p>\nand there are so many others. . . .<\/em><\/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 program required me to prioritize working in the studio daily (not just when I needed to complete something or when I had an idea to execute). But time in the studio also includes reading, writing, looking at art, or just walking and thinking. Practically speaking, VCFA forced me to become organized in all aspects of my studio practice. I have had to develop systems to capture ideas, artists and works of note, and other research materials.<\/p>\n
My studio practice has become much more rigorous, meaning that the connections between my medium, form, and content have sharpened, and I think I now understand how these elements operate to express an idea through a visual language.<\/p>\n
I have discovered that my thinking is linked to moving my hands or body. My thinking seems to happen when I am in the early stages of making, or as my A-M this Semester noted, \u201cletting loose.\u201d<\/p>\n
As for my community, New Haven has a growing art community, where social practice is at the forefront. I am excited to get more involved in the community once my MFA is completed.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n
<\/div>\nWho were your Artist-Mentors?<\/strong><\/p>\nLu Heinz<\/a><\/p>\nMaggie Nowinski<\/a><\/p>\nKate Donnelly<\/a><\/p>\nSharon Hayes<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
<\/div>Julie Krishnaswami 2021<\/small><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nWhat was on your play list during your time at VCFA?<\/strong><\/p>\nI alternate between streaming a television series or C-SPAN<\/a> in the background (helpful for tedious work) and playing music (helpful for less tedious work). When I\u2019m writing, however, I prefer silence.<\/p>\nFirst Semester – music: What a Time to Be Alive<\/em>, Superchunk<\/a><\/p>\nSecond Semester – series:\u00a0 The Americans<\/a><\/p>\nThird Semester – sitcom: Kim\u2019s Convenience<\/a><\/p>\nFourth Semester – sitcom: Arrested Development<\/a> \/ music: Big Thief<\/a> (a band I recently discovered)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n<\/div>\nWho are your favorite protagonists in fiction?<\/strong><\/p>\nCirce in the adaptation of the Greek myth, Circe<\/em> by Madeline Miller<\/a><\/p>\nHobby, the antique dealer, in The<\/em> Goldfinch <\/em>by Donna Tartt<\/a><\/p>\n
getting to know the graduates<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n
<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\nGraduating Student:<\/strong> Julie Krishnaswami (S 21)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n I began my final Semester researching how female nominees speak before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee (SJC). Treating the SJC as an employer, my work involved an intense amount of research into SJC hearings to understand labor norms that presently exist in the form of threads to the recent past. I created an archive to organize my sources and materials and managed these items to be converted to art materials. As I dug into these materials, I found language\u2014words, phrases, mannerisms, grammar\u2014an effective vehicle for understanding gendered history, labor norms, power rituals, and other practices that undergird employment relationships and dynamics. And this language continues to permeate everyday speech. It has the power to even obscure and render speakers and subjects invisible. As a result, language and its organization became my form, material, and content. Thus, I have created multiple lists of significant words and concepts that I plan to exhibit.<\/em><\/p>\n In my process paper, I discuss how translation theories inform my performance-based work. I also analyze specific art pieces for insights into my practice.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n Who, or what is your work in conversation with?<\/strong><\/p>\n Mary Kelly<\/a><\/p>\n Taryn Simon<\/a><\/p>\n Andrea Fraser<\/a><\/p>\n Mark Lombardi<\/a><\/p>\n Pope. L<\/a><\/p>\n Adrian Piper<\/a><\/p>\n Stephanie Syjuco<\/a><\/p>\n Cameron Rowland<\/a><\/p>\n Moyra Davey<\/a><\/p>\n Group Material – Doug Ashford & Julie Ault<\/a><\/p>\n Sharon Hayes<\/a><\/p>\n Sara Ahmed<\/a><\/p>\n Maggie Nelson<\/a><\/p>\n Lucy R. Lippard<\/a><\/p>\n Claire Bishop<\/a><\/p>\n Guy Debord<\/a><\/p>\n and there are so many others. . . .<\/em><\/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 program required me to prioritize working in the studio daily (not just when I needed to complete something or when I had an idea to execute). But time in the studio also includes reading, writing, looking at art, or just walking and thinking. Practically speaking, VCFA forced me to become organized in all aspects of my studio practice. I have had to develop systems to capture ideas, artists and works of note, and other research materials.<\/p>\n My studio practice has become much more rigorous, meaning that the connections between my medium, form, and content have sharpened, and I think I now understand how these elements operate to express an idea through a visual language.<\/p>\n I have discovered that my thinking is linked to moving my hands or body. My thinking seems to happen when I am in the early stages of making, or as my A-M this Semester noted, \u201cletting loose.\u201d<\/p>\n As for my community, New Haven has a growing art community, where social practice is at the forefront. I am excited to get more involved in the community once my MFA is completed.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n Who were your Artist-Mentors?<\/strong><\/p>\n Lu Heinz<\/a><\/p>\n Maggie Nowinski<\/a><\/p>\n Kate Donnelly<\/a><\/p>\n Sharon Hayes<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n What was on your play list during your time at VCFA?<\/strong><\/p>\n I alternate between streaming a television series or C-SPAN<\/a> in the background (helpful for tedious work) and playing music (helpful for less tedious work). When I\u2019m writing, however, I prefer silence.<\/p>\n First Semester – music: What a Time to Be Alive<\/em>, Superchunk<\/a><\/p>\n Second Semester – series:\u00a0 The Americans<\/a><\/p>\n Third Semester – sitcom: Kim\u2019s Convenience<\/a><\/p>\n Fourth Semester – sitcom: Arrested Development<\/a> \/ music: Big Thief<\/a> (a band I recently discovered)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n Who are your favorite protagonists in fiction?<\/strong><\/p>\n Circe in the adaptation of the Greek myth, Circe<\/em> by Madeline Miller<\/a><\/p>\n Hobby, the antique dealer, in The<\/em> Goldfinch <\/em>by Donna Tartt<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>Julie Krishnaswami 2021<\/small><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n
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