The Many Seasons of Ilona Szwarc

Join Kris, Jacob and Lisa along with guests Ruth Jeyaveeran and Tracy Le as we chat with Ilona Szwarc about her work during Field Residency! We discuss the different experiences Ilona had at Yale and SVA and her latest project on Seasonal Color in Fashion. This work continues her long term exploration of “the expert” in art, fashion, “beauty,” and photography wherein Ilona takes on the role of the expert, casting “look alike” models along side her to create images reflecting the expert who forms and molds pupils to their image. Some of the topics we discuss are:    The first popular book on the seasons is: "Color: The essence of you" by Suzanne Caygill (We HIGHLY recommend checking this out, it’s a wild ride).https://www.amazon.com/Color-Essence-You-Suzanne-Caygill/dp/0890871957  Johannes Itten was a painter and the first person to use the term Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter as it related to color and it was the foundation for the development of seasonal color analysis.  

Shame, trauma, and healing are at the core of SECRETO, a years-long project by María Luisa Portuondo Vila. Field Projects is honored to unveil the first book produced from this work at our gallery NEXT WEEK, so stay tuned and you can meet with María Luisa yourself! Secrets grip us, and we get into grief, love, death, sex, and abuse in this deeply human conversation. We discuss María Luisa’s early transition from private theater to community centered public works, and what it means to make projects for the public. Ghostly, haunting thoughts of the pandemic time came together in María Luisa ’s project HABITĀR, whose second iteration was completed at Field Projects residency in 2021. This enabled her to make a book that is materially outside the dominant institutional cannon of paper-centric men’s publications! We also cover questions around audience participation and how to make institutions chase you (not the other way around!) through process, not product.  PLEASE JOIN US FOR the *SECRETO Book Launch Wednesday October 12, 2022!* Our final take away: Reflecting and openness is not related to money and can’t be commercialized, so it is a responsible, anti-market act that helps to better yourself and your community. Be open and love yourself and everyone else you can :) CODA: Perfect Lovers discussion.   TW: There is a brief discussion of childhood sexual abuse around 52 mins, so if that’s not for you, we’ll see you next time!    SHOW NOTES María Luisa Portuondo Vila @mariap.vila  http://www.mariapvila.com/aboutme MERCURY STORE Theater residency in Brooklyn: https://mercurystore.com/what-we-do/   Joseph Beuys on Social Sculpture: (and was it Medieval?): https://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/s/social-sculpture Book rec from Maria: Discourses: Conversations in Postmodern Art and Culture (1990) https://www.google.com/books/edition/Discourses/4pKnyqHfySMC?hl=en   Us Kris Racaniello @krisrac (+for art): @krisracworks Jacob Rhodes @jacobrhodes74 Field Projects @fieldprojects www.fieldprojectsgallery.com Open Call http://www.fieldprojectsgallery.com/open-call Field Residency http://www.fieldprojectsgallery.com/field-residency 

Hand-made paper! Ancient Symposia! Bandages! Jade Suits! Cowboys! Today, Jacob and Kris sit down for a post-Spring/Break interview with artist Fay Ku. Fay was Field Project’s featured artist at Spring Break this year in Axonometric Tongue. Ku’s immersive, axonometric installation proposed a radical alternative to the hegemonic eye of single point perspective. We discuss the ins and outs of Spring Break Art Fair and why this fair is one of the best you can participate in as an artist.    SHOW NOTES Fay Ku www.fayku.com/ @fay.ku  @springbreakartshow   Check out Fay Ku’s work in: Axonometric Tongue: https://springbreakartfair.com/collections/jacob-rhodes-kris-racaniello    Us Kris Racaniello @krisrac (+for art): @krisracworks Jacob Rhodes @jacobrhodes74 Field Projects @fieldprojects www.fieldprojectsgallery.com Open Call http://www.fieldprojectsgallery.com/open-call Field Residency http://www.fieldprojectsgallery.com/field-residency   

Floating Cities! Perspective! Blood, String & Jade!  On episode 1 of FieldPod season 3 Jacob Rhodes and Kris Racaniello dive into fall and, of course, fall in New York means Spring/Break Art Show with Fay Ku! Fay is Field Project’s featured artist at Spring Break this year in our exhibition Axonometric Tongue. Ku’s immersive, axonometric installation proposes Ming Dynasty art as a radical alternative to the hegemonic eye of single point perspective. Axonometric Tongue flips the hierarchy, generating an alternate, anti-Italian Renaissance timeline wherein single-minded colonialism is eradicated by the contextual poetics of Mandarin structures. On this episode we talk about Fay’s formative trip to Rome, and her recent return to Italy to teach in Venice for Pratt. How do “museumified” cities affect us? What changes in space when we change our clothing? How do the poetics of the desert play out differently in drawing than the dynamics of the city? Fay discusses how traveling brings you back to who you are and what you want to be. As an artist born in Taiwan and raised in the United States, Fay also discusses stradling White European renaissance ideals as an artist and her connection with axonometric drawing and historical Chinese methods of perspective.  SHOW NOTES Fay Ku www.fayku.com/ @fay.ku  @springbreakartshow   Check out Fay Ku’s work in: Axonometric Tongue   Us Kris Racaniello @krisrac (+for art): @krisracworks Jacob Rhodes @jacobrhodes74 Field Projects @fieldprojects www.fieldprojectsgallery.com Open Call http://www.fieldprojectsgallery.com/open-call Field Residency http://www.fieldprojectsgallery.com/field-residency

Episode 9: Yongqi Tang (Field Resident)   Today on Field Pod, Jacob Rhodes joins one of our Field Residents, Yongqi Tang. They discuss growing up queer/bisexual in Shenzhen, China, having the Sistine Chapel and Rome as ones  first Art experience, Heideggar’s ideas on what makes an artwork, Scoliosis, identity performance, empowerment through connecting to community and empathy, sharing food with your ancestry. And finally searching for queerness in chinese mythology.   Show Notes: Yongqi Tang @yongqiichiban https://ichibanstudio.blog/   Shenzhen, China https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shenzhen   Sistine Chapel, Rome https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sistine_Chapel   Martin Heidegger “The Origin of Work of Art” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Origin_of_the_Work_of_Art    Scoliosis https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseases/scoliosis    Jenny Saville https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenny_Saville   Anna Park https://www.annaparkart.com/   Space in Art History: three lectures by Wu Hung https://www.artandeducation.net/announcements/105628/space-in-art-history-three-lectures-by-wu-hung   Liaozhai zhiyi (Liaozhai; Chinese: 聊齋誌異, English title: Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_Tales_from_a_Chinese_Studio Audio book: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mT4Fm7Ip3s0&ab_channel=LibriVoxAudiobooks    Us Kris Racaniello @krisrac (+for art): @krisracworks Jacob Rhodes @jacobrhodes74 Field Projects @fieldprojects www.fieldprojectsgallery.com Open Call http://www.fieldprojectsgallery.com/open-call Field Residency http://www.fieldprojectsgallery.com/field-residency 

Episode 8: Ilana Yacine Harris-Babou    Today on Field Pod, Jacob Rhodes sits down with the artist Ilana Yacine Harris-Babou. They talk about growing up in Brooklyn, with a multi generational house of black women, play and its relationship to work, lack and pleasure, the Loren Hill syndrome, Audre Lorde’s “The Use of the Erotic”, finally getting comfortable in your studio, showing old work in a new context, and many other concepts. Join Ilana and Jacob today as they discuss all these questions and topics to learn more about this fascinating artist.    Show Notes: Ilana Yacine Harris-Babou @ilanahbhb  www.ilanahb.com    Ilana Harris-Babou’s solo exhibition Revelations @ Artspace New Haven https://artspacenewhaven.org/exhibitions/ilana-harris-babou-revelations/   Wingate Park area https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/wingate-park     The Use of the Erotic (page 90) By Audre Lorde  https://uk.sagepub.com/sites/default/files/upm-binaries/11881_Chapter_5.pdf   Forced Collaboration 2 https://artspacenewhaven.org/exhibitions/forced-collaboration-ii/    Johannes DeYoung http://www.johannesdeyoung.com/about    Nestor Siré @ Queens Museum https://queensmuseum.org/2017/01/julia-weist    Video Data Bank https://www.vdb.org/   Electronic Arts intermix https://www.eai.org/   Artspace New Haven https://artspacenewhaven.org   The Wellcome Collection https://wellcomecollection.org/   Larrie “By Design” https://larrie.nyc/pages/by-design   Chimborazo Park, Richmond, VA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimborazo_Park  1708 Gallery https://www.1708gallery.org/index.php    Go Sees Candice Madley Gallery “Power Tools” https://www.candicemadey.com/gallery/all/power-tools Dietch “Vibrant Matters” https://deitch.com/new-york/exhibitions/vibrant-matters-curated-by-melanie-krass Hessel Museum of Art “Dara Birnbaum : Reaction” https://ccs.bard.edu/museum/exhibitions/695-dara-birnbaum-reaction  Mass Art “Designing Motherhood : Things That Make and Break Our Births” https://maam.massart.edu/exhibition/designing-motherhood

HOME GALLERY with Will Chan Today on Field Pod, Kris Racaniello sits down with William Chan, who opened Home Gallery in 2020.  They talk about the difficulties and desire for opening a gallery during the COVID outbreak. They discuss the fu*ked up situation with Leon Black and the board of directors at MoMA, and Laura Raicovich at the Queens Museum,  Have you ever wondered about running your own gallery? Do you want to opt out of corporate art models? Join Kris and Will today as they discuss all these questions and topics to find out some answers and alternatives to the standard gallery model.    SHOW NOTES William Chan  @__william__chan http://www.will-chan.com/    Home Gallery  @homegallerynyc https://www.homehomehomehome.com/    Laura Raicovich https://lauraraicovich.com/about    Us Kris Racaniello @krisrac (+for art): @krisracworks Jacob Rhodes @jacobrhodes74 Field Projects @fieldprojects www.fieldprojectsgallery.com Open Call http://www.fieldprojectsgallery.com/open-call Field Residency http://www.fieldprojectsgallery.com/field-residency 

Today on Field Pod Kris sits down with Katya Harris on a porch in Massachusetts to talk beer, making, and nature. Katya is currently the Director of Partnerships at the New York State Brewers Association and previously worked as the Development Manager at Art Omi. They cover some important, difficult topics around art, success, and balancing your drive and goals with your mental health and life.  What really happens to you in that first five years after you leave your MFA program? What do you do with your life and creative drive when you decide not to pursue the blue chip gallery dream? How can we all use art as both a personal and communal healing practice? And how does beer tie all that together? Find out in today’s episode with Katya and Kris!    SHOW NOTES Katya Harris  @katyajharris https://www.katyaharris.com/work    New York State Brewers Association https://newyorkcraftbeer.com/  Art Omi https://artomi.org/    Us Kris Racaniello @krisrac (+for art): @krisracworks Jacob Rhodes @jacobrhodes74 Field Projects @fieldprojects www.fieldprojectsgallery.com Open Call http://www.fieldprojectsgallery.com/open-call Field Residency http://www.fieldprojectsgallery.com/field-residency   

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 

For this extended short, join Kris Racaniello as they discuss the impactful exhibition Women at War with curator Monika Fabijanska! This show features contemporary women artists who are working in Ukraine today. Monika and Kris discuss the important role of historiography, gender, family, and representation in shaping perceptions of war beyond the boundaries of  Monika shares many profound observations about the operation of artists at war, including the the difficulty for artists who are those who try to tell a more nuanced view of history than government or institutions. Artists in Ukraine have carried forward, even today during war with Russia, trying desperately to defend the nuance of history.   SHOW NOTES WOMEN AT WAR @ Fridman Gallery, 169 Bowery, NYC @fridmangallery Curated by Monika Fabijanska @monikafabijanska July 6 - August 26, 2022 Featuring artists: Yevgenia Belorusets, Oksana Chepelyk, Olia Fedorova, Alena Grom, Zhanna Kadyrova, Alevtina Kakhidze, Dana Kavelina, Lesia Khomenko, Vlada Ralko, Anna Scherbyna, Kateryna Yermolaeva, and Alla Horska (1929–70) https://www.fridmangallery.com/women-at-war  Moca Martha residency @martha_moca_nj   Us Kris Racaniello @krisrac (+for art): @krisracworks Jacob Rhodes @jacobrhodes74 Field Projects @fieldprojects www.fieldprojectsgallery.com Open Call http://www.fieldprojectsgallery.com/open-call Field Residency http://www.fieldprojectsgallery.com/field-residency