Listen "J. Sybylla Smith, In Conversation with Sonja Thomsen"
Episode Synopsis
This tactile hand-bound book is anchored by text excerpts from overshadowed contributions of three female visionary artists whose theses and research are seminal to our understanding of visual culture. Thomsen choreographs light and space to elicit wonder and activate curiosity to imagine post patriarchal structures of meaning and experience. In this book group, Sonja Thomsen discusses, among other things:Simultaneity of mind, body and spiritual experience Co-authoring as a transformative art practiceEditors as essential translators of ideas into material and formBooks as portals, fluid conduits to generating ideas and innovationCreating language reflective of non-binary experience Defiance of a singular (or linear read) of an image or experienceThe necessity of rules to create elegant structure for specific design elements Referenced in the episodePoor Farm PressFiguring by Maria PopovaBrain Pickings Penelope UmbricoPiece of Cake CollectiveResmaa Menakem - Grandmother’s Hands Lucia Moholy-Nagy - Marginal Notes Sonja Thomsen Website | InstagramEngage with J. Sybylla Smith https://www.jsybyllasmith.com Instagram @jsybylla and Facebook @j.sybylla.smith
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