Well, here we are. This project stared in May on a whim and prayer thanks to this one show I saw in D.C., and now I am putting together an actual project that has my face and voice behind it! I want to start this by saying a big thank you to everyone who inspired this project, funded this project, and took time to help me throughout the process of writing and filming.
The statistics are here! A whole script is here with some reflection editing to follow in January, plus a special surprise that I will later talking about. Like the script, most of the filming is done, except for that surprise I am going to mention in January. I will attach everything at the bottom of this post.
I was extremely lucky enough to interview three lovely people throughout this journey. I forgot to take pictures of these lovely people because I was so nervous, but I am so excited to share who these are with.
Lorelei d’Andriole is currently an assistant professor at Michigan State University who went to grad school at the University of Iowa, a hotspot for fluxus work. Lorelei and I spoke for way too long, and she will be heavily featured in this video essay.
Victoria Scrimer is an assistant professor at Millikin University, and probably the whole catalyst for this whole project. She worked with me through a different version of this project which was a fifteen page paper. I am so excited to show her knowledge about this subject in video form.
TG, who I want to protect for her privacy right now, is a Chicago-based part time performance artist that I met in 2022. Our interview is not the sit down typical interview, but us playing a video game where we are talking about how it feels to be alive and trans in 2024. I wanted to include someone in my life who knows my work and I know their work. TG is one of my best friends, and I cannot understate how happy I am to include them in this project.
The main film I need to get is B-roll. I need something else to be in this essay without the faces of people I know in the frame. The second thing I need to film is going to be the performance part of this piece. I feel like it would be incomplete without me doing a little performance piece based off of a fluxus score. I won’t reveal the fluxus score now, but yes, there is a performance art piece to this.
Happy 2024 wrapped.