Grab Your Pearls and Hog it Girl: A conversation between Charles Atlas and Ian Wooldridge
<p>The following conversation took place in New York on May 19th 2018 with loose ends recently tied. The original transcript was much longer. We nerded over mathematics, technology and gay politics, scrambling about on fun tangents. One could define these tangents as frivolous and furthermore position “frivolous” as having a particular anglo gay tone. This tone carries into the varying roles Charles takes as an artist. One role he recently took was creating the exhibition design for the Robert Rauschenberg retrospective Among Friends, at MoMA New York. His practice refuses a stable single categorization drawing on community and collaboration while sitting on the periphery of portraiture and media. Atlas’ position is outside of and in conversation with experimentation and improvisation, the live event and immersive environment. The freedom he takes radiates otherness and he has continuously placed himself at the forefront of new technologies, multi-screen installations, and live video mixing.</p>
Authors: Charles Atlas, Ian Wooldridge
Series Editor: Lucie Kolb, Pablo Müller, Barbara Preisig, Judith Welter
Art Director: Sabo Day
Code: FLX Labs
Part of: Brand-New-Life Magazine
ISBN: 22979220
ISSN: 2297-9220