Arts Undone

Paula D. Ashe is a writer of dark fiction.  And I mean....dark.  In this episode we talk about what dark horror is, why we like it so much, and about agency, abjection, and the fact that safety is an illusion.  When one is confronted with the embodiment of experience, is self-mutilation an act of transgressive empowerment?  And why does Paula hate faces?  

Paula's new book is entitled We Are Here To Hurt Each Other and is available on Amazon.  Paula can be found on twitter @pauladashe

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ArtsUndone is a podcast and blog about all things art, including aesthetics, markets, and meanings.  Your host is Dr. Erin Schwartz

This week I have a conversation with photographer and artist Ferney Manrique Aragon.  Our conversation focuses mostly around photography, the embodiment of taking a photo and the fundamental difference between digital and analog photography.  It's a wide ranging and long conversation that addressed performance, abstractions, experimentation, Artificial Intelligence, and phenomenology.  We get deep.  

Ferney and I work together at a University in Wenzhou, China and you'll hear us talk a little bit about that as well, and what it's like to be a street photographer in China.  

We mention, briefly, the philosophers Roland Bathes and Henri Bergson, as well as Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty.  We also discuss the AI project that creates portraits of people who have never existed, which you can check out here:

https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/

Ferney Manrique Aragon can be found here:

In this episode I interview artist Erin Patton McFarren.

Erin Patton-McFarren is an artist and educator working in northeast Indiana. She studied art education and sculpture at the University of Saint Francis and earned her Masters in Library Science from Indiana University, specializing in educational media and arts reference.  Erin creates experimental cyanotypes with natural materials, primarily using the rivers and bodies of water near her home. She enjoys traveling to create site-specific work and is preparing work for two solo shows in the coming year.

Erin Patton McFarren website:  https://www.erinpattonmcfarren.com/   

Instagram: @epattonmcfarren

Look for her upcoming solo exhibitions in 2022 at the ArtLink Gallery, Fort Wayne, IN (artlinkfw.org), and at the Marcia Evans Gallery (marciaevansgallery.com) in Columbus, OH.  

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