Artist Chat Archive

Lacey McKinney is a visual artist whose work explores themes of embodiment and ecology through figuration. Her paintings encourage a dialogue about identity, social constructs, transformation, and the shared experience of life across lines of difference.

In this chat, Lacey talks about her use of mixed media such as paint and solar dyes, the role of the human figure in her practice, and how layering is central to both her technique and the metaphors in her work.

To learn more about Lacey’s mail art and accompanying film by Akari Komura and Ilana Waniuk, go here.

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Show Notes

• See Lacey's mail art

• More about Lacey

• See Lacey's Reconfiguration and Contact Zone Series

• Topics and resources mentioned in this chat that inspire Lacey's work: Marianne Wex, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, When Species Meet by Donna Jeanne Haraway, Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

• Check out Lacey's upcoming projects: Foundation House & Holter Museum

• To see the film by Akari Komura and Ilana Waniuk paired with this mail art, become a member

Akari Komura’s artistic exploration is oriented towards heightening awareness and transforming our perception of the sonic environment. Somatic and embodied consciousness practices are central to her creative process, and she is interested in curating a participatory performance space that invites a community of performers and audience to a collective and ritualistic act of listening and sound-making.

Ilana Waniuk is a versatile violinist with interests ranging from classical music and improvisation to visual arts. Drawing on her multidisciplinary experience, her audiovisual practice explores various configurations of digital and analog projection techniques in collaboration with music and sound in a live setting. 

In this chat, Akari and Ilana talk about the interconnected roles of their collaboration, the way visuals, sound, and movement performances are intertwined in the film, and their expansive view of care.

To learn more about Akari and Ilana’s film and accompanying postcard by Lacey McKinney, go here. To see their film, become a Middle Ear Project member and access our full film catalogue.

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Show Notes

• See the trailer for Akari and Ilana's film

• More about Akari

• More about Ilana

• Behind the scenes of Akari and Ilana making their film

• See the visual art by Lacey McKinney paired with this film

Matt LeVeque is a percussionist, composer, and improviser based in Los Angeles. His work is rooted in acoustic concert music, but frequently also includes electronic music, video, written text, installation, and intermedia performance. He explores questions of intimacy, queerness, and nostalgia in his work.

In this chat, Matt talks about his filming process, the poem by his partner Justin Dela Cruz that inspired his MEP film, and why Matt was drawn to reflect on the highways of Los Angeles.

To learn more about Matt’s film and accompanying postcard by Yumiko Glover, go here. To see Matt’s film, become a Middle Ear Project member and access our full film catalogue.

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Show Notes

• Link to our Open Call for proposals

• See the trailer for Matt's film

• More about Matt

• Learn about Justin Dela Cruz, the poet who inspired this film

• Learn more about James Benning's film United States of America

• See the visual art by Yumiko Glover paired with this film

Ian Power and Clint McCallum are both composers, performers, and performance artists who have been working together since 2008, when they met at UC San Diego. Since then, they’ve been pushing the limits of music, rhythm, and theater in their off-the-wall performances.

In this chat, Ian and Clint talk about their history as a duo, the symbolism behind the sounds and objects in their MEP film, and what it was like to make this film with the MEP team.

To learn more about Ian and Clint’s film and accompanying mail art by Ariel Oakley, go here. To see Ian and Clint’s film, become a Middle Ear Project member and access our full film catalogue.

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Show Notes

• See the trailer for Ian & Clint's film

• More about Ian

• More about Clint

• Check out ensemble THE

• One of Clint, Ian, and Carolyn Chen's early trio pieces

• kmlkmljkl original viral video

• Full News Report that inspired the film

• Work by Natacha Diels & Jessie Marino that uses mirroring similar to Ian and Clint

• Meat Your Mirror by Clint and Bob Pierzak

• See the visual art by Ariel Oakley paired with this film

Ariel Oakley is an artist living and working in Los Angeles, California whose paintings explore the boundaries of self and non-self, external and internal, life and generative decay. Her images combine medieval fresco, anatomical references, and are informed by her job as a nurse in surgery at Keck Hospital of USC.

In this chat, Ariel talks about her experience as a surgical nurse and how that inspires her painting practice, what draws her to medieval fresco techniques, and the idea of shared breath that inspired her MEP visual artwork.

To learn more about Ariel’s mail art and accompanying film by Ian Power and Clint McCallum, go here.

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Show Notes

• See Ariel's postcard art

• Learn more about Ariel Oakley

• Read Notes on Complexity by Neil Theise

• Learn about Deep Listening by Pauline Oliveros

• See Ariel's recent work and Breath of Devotion triptych

• Maryland Institute College of Art Low-Residency MFA

• Learn about the Middle Ear Project library program

• See the trailer for the film paired with Ariel's mail art

Tori Tinsley’s visual art is inspired by bonds with her mother, who suffered from dementia, and her children. Her cartoonish, nude figures inhabit vibrant, textured environments, expressing the emotional complexity and vulnerability of caregiving: longing, disbelief, discomfort, and hope, steeped in tenderness, dark humor, and the persistent desire to love and be loved.

In this film, Tori talks about the recurring, delightful, cartoonish figures in her work, her personal experiences as a caregiver, and how the dark humor and delight in her pieces relates to the emotional complexity and vulnerability of caregiving.

To learn more about Tori’s mail art and accompanying film by āññā duo, go here.

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Show Notes

• See Tori's mail art

• Learn more about Tori

• Scroll to see work from Tori's Hug series and recent romance-novel-inspired paintings

• See Tori's Airport installation

• See the trailer for the film paired with Tori's mail art

Felix Quintana is a Salvadoran-American artist whose multidisciplinary practice spans photography, digital media, collage, drawing, and installation to uplift the beauty of the day-to-day routines and emblems of diasporic communities of Los Angeles. 

In this chat, Felix talks about his interest in cyanotype, the use of Google Street view in his practice, and his “fantasma paraiso” series of works.

To learn more about Felix’s mail art and accompanying film by Forbes Graham, go here.

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Show Notes

• See Felix's mail art

• Learn more about Felix

• See work from Felix's Fantasma Paraiso project

• Learn more about Cyanotypes

• See the trailer for the film paired with Felix's mail art

Sophie Pearson is an oil painter who lives in Worcester, MA. Her current work revolves around self-portraiture and the experiences of growing up in a tumultuous household. Using her own childhood photos as both inspiration and reference, she explores themes of memory loss, childhood, and trauma. 

In this chat, Sophie talks about how she depicts the complexity of memory in her paintings, her process of re-creating and amending childhood photographs, and how her art connects with her personal healing process.

To learn more about Sophie’s mail art and accompanying film by Kai-Luen Liang, go here.

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Show Notes

• See Sophie's mail art

• Learn more about Sophie

• See work from Sophie's body image and photograph series

• See Sophie's Nostalgia Paintings

• Visit Sophie's Patreon

• See the trailer for the film paired with Sophie's mail art

Sara Roberts is a visual, sonic, sculptural, and performance artist whose work explores touch, texture and eccentric worldbuilding. We were drawn to Sara Roberts’s work with sewn plant material for the way it quietly repositions overlooked plant materials into something reverent. In her practice of sewing material for the ground, Sara collects fallen plant skins—fragments from palms, cactuses, and trees—and stitches them not to repair, but to notice. 

In this chat, Sara talked about her interdisciplinary process, the story behind the shawl in this month’s mail art, and the improvisatory nature of working with plant-based materials. 

To learn more about Sara’s mail art and haana lee’s accompanying film, go here.

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Show Notes

• Learn more about Sara Roberts

• See Sara's plant embroidery

• See more of Sara's illustrative ceramics

• Lolly Willowes; or The Loving Huntsman, the book Sara's piece is inspired by

• Learn about Lace Lichen

• See the trailer for the film paired with Sara's mail art

haana lee is a producer, sound artist, installation artist and DJ whose work explores the introspective and corporeal possibilities of music and sound. Their productions weave sonic textures built from analog instruments, field recordings, and other found noises, creating a sonic journey that seeks to unite melodic noise with ambient intentions and deconstructed confusion.

In this chat, haana lee talked about the experience of shaving their head and deciding to document it, how they transformed the sounds of the electric razor, and how they chose different imagery to reflect on physical presence and memory. 

To learn more about haana lee’s film and accompanying postcard by Sara Roberts, go here. To see their film, become a Middle Ear Project member and access our full film catalogue.

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Show Notes

• See the trailer for haana lee's film

• Learn more about haana lee

• See some of haana lee's work as a DJ

• Check out BTS from haana lee making their candles

• Listen to haana lee's recent album (and follow there for upcoming releases)

• See the mail art paired with haana lee's film

In order to explore the roots of human history and historical traumas, both political and environmental, multimedia artist Alicia Piller combines new and discarded materials informs that mimic cellular biology.

In this chat, Alicia talks about why she’s interested in cellular forms, how she uses new and discarded materials, and how she made the art for this month's postcard, Reconfiguration 4. 

To learn more about Alicia’s mail art and accompanying film by Ashton Phillips, go here.

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Show Notes

• See Alicia's mail art

• Learn more about Alicia

• Explore Alicia's fashion work

• See the trailer for Ashton and Pure Filth Society's film

• See a peek into Alicia's process

Pure Filth Society is an ongoing experimental collaboration founded by Ashton Phillips and Dylan Ricards. Their work focuses on the liberating power of filth, the precarity and mutability of form (including the human form), and the pursuit of pleasure, play, and connection as forms of queer resistance and faith.

In this chat, Ashton talks about interspecies performance, the ritual and religious symbolism in their performance, and the individual practices of Pure Filth Society’s performers.

To learn more about Ashton’s film and accompanying postcard by Alicia Piller, go here. To see their film, become a Middle Ear Project member and access our full film catalogue.

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Show Notes

• See the trailer for Ashton and Pure Filth Society's film

• Learn more about Ashton

• Learn more about Pure Filth Society

• Read Ashton's article in Antennae Journal (Summer 2024, pg 14)

• See a peek into how the film was made

• See a close up view of the mealworms

• See the mail art paired with this film

āññā (Anqi Liu and Han Zhang) is an interdisciplinary duo whose creative practice is founded on play, dreaming, and co-creation. Their fluid improvisation and ritualistic processes aim to expand the viewer’s sense of perception and space.

In this chat, āññā duo talked about how friendship is woven into their artistic language, the process of creating their film, and how their work is driven by improvisation, play, dreaming, and co-creation.

To learn more about āññā duo’s film and accompanying postcard by Tori Tinsley, go here. To see their film, become a Middle Ear Project member and access our full film catalogue.

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Show Notes

• See the trailer for āññā duo's film

• Learn more about āññā duo

• Learn more about the I Ching

• See āññā duo's DIY electronics and some film behind-the-scenes

• See āññā duo's fabric installation at Oracle Egg

• See the mail art paired with āññā duo's film

DesoDuois a duo of composer/percussionists Kaitie Eikam and Kevin Good. Their practice often uses found objects, percussion instruments, and field recordings — unearthing unique practices into handcrafted performances. 

Katie Eikam is also a visual artist. Using photography and line drawings with natural materials collected on her hikes, Kaitie’s visual work reflects, contradicts, and enhances views of the natural objects while preserving their natural simplicity. This month, Kaitie’s visual art serves as both this month’s postcard and a graphic score for DesoDuo.

In this chat, Katie & Kevin talked about their musical practices, Jen & Cassia’s collaboration with them through film, and Katie’s visual art which served as the score.

To learn more about DeoDuo’s film and accompanying postcard by Katie Eikam, go here. To see their film, become a Middle Ear Project member and access our full film catalogue.

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Show Notes

• See the trailer for DesoDuo's film

• See Katie's mail art

• See more of Katie's graphic scores

• Learn more about Kevin's "The Chords in My Life" project

• Read about Fodor's Recommendation to avoid Eaton Canyon

• See how the film was made

• Learn more about our library partnership

Liz Melchor is a visual artist who blends precision with unpredictability. When she first encountered a pen plotter, she was drawn to the challenge it posed: how could she use a precise and predictable machine to produce the surprises that drive her art? Her pen plot drawings explore layers and materials, embracing errors, mistakes, and glitches—traces of the perfect machine being imperfect. Liz is obsessed with pushing these machines to their limit to exploit these glitches.

In this chat, Liz talks about her first exposure to pen plotters, the different techniques she employs to manipulate drawing machines, and the importance of being surprised by your own work.

To learn more about Liz’s mail art and accompanying film by Viola Yip, go here.

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Show Notes

• Learn more about Liz's work

• See Liz's mail art, Call and Response

• See the trailer for the film paired with Liz's art

• One of Liz's responses to criticism of "machine-made" art

• See the pen plotter making Call and Response

• Learn more about Liz's drawing teacher, Michael Markowitz

• Some of Liz's other mail art pieces

Celka Ojakangas is a composer, violist, and animator whose art plays with hybridism and recontextualization, intentionally exploring and blurring the boundaries between techniques and genres to create fun and eclectic palettes of texture, rhythm, and grooves. We love her maximalist, vibrant style and how she channels exuberance and delight to explore more tender experiences like feeling trapped or losing a beloved pet.

In this chat, Celka talks about her story as a composer, how she got into animation, and Lulu (her pet parrot and muse). She also discusses her love of vibrant color, which is present in her music, animation, and wardrobe.

To learn more about Celka’s film and accompanying postcard by Sofie Ramos, go here. To see her film, become a Middle Ear Project member and access our full film catalogue.

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Show Notes

• Learn more about Celka's work

• See the trailer for Celka's film

• See the mail art paired with Celka's film

• Listen to Birdcage and read Celka's program notes

• Meet Lulu the parrot!

• See a Desert Rain Frog

• See Celka's Fashion Instagram

Alicia Brown is a visual artist born in Jamaica and based in Florida. The Crown, her painting-turned-postcard this month, features a figure adorned with natural, everyday objects shaped into a crown and collar that references those worn by European aristocrats during the Renaissance.

In this chat, Alicia talks about her story as an artist, why she is drawn to portraiture, and the inspiration behind how she created her painting, The Crown.

To learn more about Alicia’s mail art and accompanying film by CuZns, go here.

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Show Notes

• Learn more about Alicia here

• Check out Alicia's other portraits here

• See her mail art here

• See the trailer paired with this visual art here

William Roper (tuba) and Bobby Bradford (cornet) are CuZns, a name referencing their identity as Black Americans and the elements that form brass: copper (Cu) and zinc (Zn)

Roper is a multidisciplinary artist, working in tuba performance, composition, and spontaneous spoken word. Bobby Bradford is a cornettist and elder of improvised music in LA. Over many years of collaboration, the two have developed a performance style and rapport unlike any other, moving quickly between cornet, tuba, singing, and speaking, with nods to historical culture, cross-genre music, and the Black American experience.

In this chat, Roper and Booby take a few minutes to talk to us about their history and origin story.

To learn more about CuZn’s film and accompanying postcard by Alicia Brown, go here. To see their film, become a Middle Ear Project member and access our full film catalogue.

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Show Notes

• See the trailer for this film here

• Hear Purple Gums here

• Learn more about Roper here

Nick Deyoe and Jay Sorce make up KillDry, a dark and ambient electric guitar duo. The two musicians use the pedalboard as a fully realized musical instrument, expressively manipulated in real time.

Adam Rowe is a graphic designer, visual artist, and musician who is interested in creating layers and relationships that allow for multiple viewings of a work.

In this chat, Adam, Jay and Nick talk about their multi-disciplinary collaborations, how improvisation and texture feature in their work, and what draws them to the materials and techniques they use.

To learn more about KillDry and Adam’s film and accompanying postcard by Leah Asher, go here. To see their film, become a Middle Ear Project member and access our full film catalogue.

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Show Notes

• See the trailer for this film

• Learn more about KillDry

• Learn more about Adam Rowe

• Hear the last album Adam and KillDry collaborated on

• See the mail art paired with this film

Nailah Hunter is a Los Angeles-based multi-instrumentalist and composer whose music for harp, electronics, and voice shimmers with magic, wonder, and spiritual radiance.

Hsuan-Kuang Hsieh is a Taiwanese artist, living in Los Angeles, who works in experimental film, projection art, photography, and video installation. Her work often explores the multicultural identity of the Asian diaspora, with particular interests in land as a source of identity, reminiscence objects, and physical memory.

In this chat, Nailah and Hsuan-Kuang talk about their relationship to nature, making work in celebration of natural environments, and what it was like to make a film for pre-existing music. 

To learn more about Nailah and Hsuan-Kuang’s film and accompanying postcard by Adrian Tenney, go here. To see their film, become a Middle Ear Project member and access our full film catalogue.

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Show Notes

• See the trailer for this film

• Hear the complete audio for Forest Dwelling

• Learn more about Nailah

• Learn more about Hsuan-Kuang

• See the mail art paired with this film

Adrian is a visual artist, musician, and sustainable landscape architect whose work intertwines themes of ecology, reciprocity, environmental justice, and individual and community healing. 

In this chat, Adrian talks about her practice of drawing by listening, the intersections she has found between landscape design and visual art, and how activism is intertwined with her creative practice.

To learn more about Adrian’s mail art and accompanying film by Nailah Hunter and Hsuan-Kuang Hsieh, go here.

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Show Notes

• See Adrian's mail art

• Check out Adrian's comic drawing and thoughts on landscape

• Listen to Adrian's Album

• See the film trailer paired with Adrian's art

Christine Shan Shan Hou is a multi-disciplinary artist who works in collage and poetry. Their collage art introduces viewers to surprising combinations, absences, and shapes anchored in the tangible world of physical materials and locations.

In this chat, Christine talks about handcrafting as a creative practice, their poetry and collage work, and the glacier for which the mail art is named.

To learn more about Christine’s mail art and accompanying film by Roxanne Nesbitt, go here.

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Show Notes

• See Christine's mail art

• Learn more about Christine

• Check out Christine's book of poetry

• Watch the trailer for the film paired with Christine's postcard

Roxanne Nesbitt trained as an architect and orchestral contrabassist, and is now a multidisciplinary artist who explores the interaction between sound and design. Her research includes experimental instrument design, composition, improvisation, sound installation, and performance.

In this chat, Roxanne talks about her multi-disciplinary practice of designing and performing on instruments, improvising, and the animation that embellishes her performance film.

To learn more about Roxanne’s film and accompanying postcard by Christine Shan Shan Hou, go here. To see her film, become a Middle Ear Project member and access our full film catalogue.

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Show Notes

• See a trailer for As you give and falter

• Learn more about Roxanne

• See Roxanne playing some of her ceramic bells

• See the accompanying mail art by Christine Shan Shan Hou

José Guadalupe Sánchez III is an interdisciplinary artist and educator who was born and raised in West Los Angeles. His work relies heavily on self-reflectivity, and is an investigation of the multilayered experiences of varying Brown social realities in Los Angeles spanning the past, present, and future. 

In this chat, José talks about the TracoNaut Chronicles series and Brown/Chicanx concepts he’s been developing in his work.

To learn more about José’s mail art and accompanying film by Squash&Biscuit and Mengxi Yang, go here.

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Show Notes

• See José's mail art

• Learn more about José

• See more of José's TrocaNaut Chronicles series

• See the trailer for the film paired with this art

Shuwen Zhao and Brian Griffith of Squash & Biscuit “create musical atmospheres for moving images.” Zhao, a pianist, has an ear for detail creating lush soundscapes and intricate melodic lines. Griffith, a bassist, builds deep currents of sound and delicate tonal whispers. Together, they compliment each other’s styles to build pieces that are expertly crafted and surprising.

Mengxi Yang is an experimental animator originally from Nanjing, China, now living in Los Angeles. She has been making moving images since 2013, with an interest in non-fictional storytelling informed by memories and domestic life. Her works incorporate hybrid techniques, including stop motion, archive materials, collages, and hand-drawn animation. In Seven Little Trains, she mirrors the film’s music using playful and surreal animation, collage, and digital manipulation.

In this chat, the three talk about what inspired the kaleidoscope of material in their film, how they use electronic and digital manipulation, and the process of collaborating on a film like Seven Little Trains.

To learn more about their film and accompanying postcard by Jose Guadalupe Sanchez III, go here. To see their film, become a Middle Ear Project member and access our full film catalogue.

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Show Notes

• See the trailer for Seven Little Trains

• Learn More about Mengxi Yang

• See Mengxi's short film, Ai Can

• Learn more about Squash & Biscuit

House on Fire (Wells Leng, Richard An, and Andrew Anderson) is a new music trio of pianists, whose multi-instrumentalism allows for an expanded repertoire that includes cello, percussion, toy piano and other keyboard instruments. In this film, they play “melodica bagpipes” which were dreamed up by Richard An.

In this chat, two members of House on Fire talk about gradual process music, being a performer/composer, and, of course, the melodica bagpipes.

To learn more about House on Fire’s film and accompanying postcard by Sheila Pinkel, go here. To see their film, become a Middle Ear Project member and access our full film catalogue.

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Show Notes

• See the trailer for House on Fire's film

• Learn more about House on Fire

• See the Melodica Bagpipes from prototype to camera-ready

• See the mail art paired with this film

Camille Ora-Nicole is a filmmaker, poet, musician, and visual artist. In their visual art, they are interested in creating abstract diagrams that show movement around words in order to spatially illustrate the impact of and relationships between ideas. Sharp lines or curves create gestures around the words/ideas to show direct connections between them or to create more analogous connections, suggesting community or private spaces.

In this chat, Camille talks about their multi-disciplinary practice, the process of ekphrasis, and how their work in architecture informs their work.

To learn more about Camille’s mail art and accompanying film by Nina Sarnelle, go here.

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Show Notes

• See Camille's mail art

• See the trailer for the sound film paired with Camille's art

• Check out Camille's music

Miguel Ayala is a multimedia artist whose work in film, puppetry, and composition is informed by objects and experiences from everyday life.

In this chat, Miguel talks about the 60-mile commute that inspired his film, how he imitated his commute by layering musical ideas, and what it was like to use a microscope to make parts of his film.

To learn more about Miguel’s film and accompanying postcard by Justin Kim, go here. To see their film, become a Middle Ear Project member and access our full film catalogue.

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Show Notes

• See the trailer

• Get a peek of Miguel's microscope setup

• See the mail art paired with this sound film

Justin N. Kim is a painter who is interested in interconnectedness and how parts come together to create a larger structure. By painting maps that reveal the intersections and influences of human-made systems, he explores how individual components form a whole.

In this chat, Justin talks about cartography, exploring Los Angeles, and how/why he painted Garfield Park.

To learn more about Justin’s mail art and accompanying film by Miguel Ayala, go here.

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Show Notes

• See the mail art

• See more of Justin's Microchip Pieces and Map Pieces

• Trailer for Dust Catchers, Miguel Ayala's film paired with this mail art

Nat Evans is a composer and interdisciplinary artist whose practice includes site-specific events and installations, chamber music, scores for dance and film, conceptual works based in ecology and social practice, and meditations on everyday life. He’s also a sustainable farmer.

In this chat, Nat talks about his film and how he drew connections between climate change, family history, the pandemic, and death.

To learn more about Nat’s film and accompanying postcard by Maria Maea, go here. To see his film, become a Middle Ear Project member and access our full film catalogue.

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Show Notes

• See the trailer for Nat's film

• More about Nat

• Listen to My Old Friend Death as an album

• See a portion of Nat's Flyover Country

• Learn more about Lori Goldston (cello)

• Learn more about Will Hayes (guitar)

• See the visual art by María Maea paired with this film

The Gamble House, an historic craftsman house in Pasadena, CA, inspired MEP’s film, Gamble House: Inside Out. It was designed in 1908 by American Arts and Crafts architects Charles and Henry Greene for the Gamble Family (as in Procter & Gamble). It is currently the best-preserved and most complete work by Greene and Greene in existence.

In this chat, Jennifer Trotoux from the Gamble House joined Cassia Streb and Jennifer Bewerse to talk about what inspires us about the Gamble House and what it was like to film there.

To learn more about the Gamble House film and accompanying postcard by Nick McPhail, go here. To see the film, become a Middle Ear Project member and access our full film catalogue.

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Show Notes

• Learn more about the Gamble House

• See the trailer for the Gamble House film

• See the mail art paired with this film

María Alejandra Bulla is a multi-disciplinary music maker whose work lives comfortably at the intersection of music, design, and craft. She often creates small handmade objects that convey a sense of sound through touch and texture.

In this chat, María talks about how objects are incorporated into her art and the process behind making her film and mail art.

To learn more about María’s film and accompanying postcard, go here. To see her film, become a Middle Ear Project member and access our full film catalogue.

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Show Notes

• See the trailer for María's film