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Joy Episalla in conversation with Phil Taylor, Associate Curator in the Department of Photography, at their Wish You Were Here lecture on April 30, 2025
Joy Episalla’s work repositions photography and the moving image into the territory of sculpture. From a queer/feminist perspective, Episalla engages with the dynamics of transformation, multiplicity, and hybridity through the mutability of materials, observation, process, time, movement, seriality, and sound. In her film "As long as there's you, as long as there's me," she sequences and parlays disparate filmed moments into a travelogue of non-performance performance. In their photo-derived sculptural work, such as the foldtograms, the light sensitive (silver gelatin or chromogenic) objects result from performative and out-of-sequence actions and processes, which are then installed in site-responsive situations.
The Wish You Were Here series is generously supported by Thomas N. Tischer, PhD.
Joy Episalla in conversation with Phil Taylor, Associate Curator in the Department of Photography, at their Wish You Were Here lecture on April 30, 2025
Joy Episalla’s work repositions photography and the moving image into the territory of sculpture. From a queer/feminist perspective, Episalla engages with the dynamics of transformation, multiplicity, and hybridity through the mutability of materials, observation, process, time, movement, seriality, and sound. In her film "As long as there's you, as long as there's me," she sequences and parlays disparate filmed moments into a travelogue of non-performance performance. In their photo-derived sculptural work, such as the foldtograms, the light sensitive (silver gelatin or chromogenic) objects result from performative and out-of-sequence actions and processes, which are then installed in site-responsive situations.
The Wish You Were Here series is generously supported by Thomas N. Tischer, PhD.
