![]() ![]() ![]() Keep moving forward one thing at a time and try to let go of work being perfect. Ask for what you need, but don’t expect to get it all the time. Stay in a solution-minded brain instead of a swamp of goo. I would say to artists going into a collaborative process to check your boundaries, have a good attitude, and have other people outside of the project to talk to about the stresses. Both are critical to the process and both can be satisfying and also painful. Or it could be a budget meeting that is boring everyone to death. This is probably a shot of us creating some innovative new artistic landscape that will blow everyone’s mind. Fundraising, presenters, general artist woes. I have had many calls and emails with the folks at Creative Capital for all kinds of support. Creative Capital was instrumental in getting us our premiere, and it’s a great fit for us. I was having a lot of trouble getting the premiere set, for various reasons. About a year later, she contacted us and asked if we were still working on the show, and would we want to premier it in NYLA’s Planet Justice festival. When we did our Creative Capital retreat presentation, Janet Wong from NYLA was in the audience, and we requested a meeting with her after and Creative Capital arranged it. It was hard to imagine doing any work at all during that time, and the team helped me get through the weird times and pick up the project when I was ready. Beyond that, Creative Capital was very supportive during the pandemic, which was when I received my award. It also gave me a big confidence boost in going forward with raising more money. Monetarily, of course, Creative Capital has been huge to be able to expand collaboratively and think bigger in terms of production and generosity with my team. ![]() It’s a balance of medium and message - what should be a video? What should be a photo? What should be a drawing? What would serve the story better with a live performance moment, and if so, is it scripted? Improvised? No wrong answers! It is challenging and fun to figure out the puzzle of live performance with a big visual story that goes along with it. Jibz Cameron seated in front of a screen projection. Read Jibz Cameron’s take on creating this Creative Capital project in their Artist Diary, and dive into Titanic Depression at Pioneer Works co-presented by New York Live Arts part of Live Ideas 2023: Planet Justice, in Brooklyn, NY on May 20 and 21, 2023. ![]() In a hilariously nonsensical live performance, Titanic Depression addresses today’s era of consumerism-driven climate change while exploring issues of class, gender roles, and the gratuitously wealthy. Combining animation, video, soundscapes, and improvisation, Titanic Depression by Jibz Cameron (2020 Creative Capital Grantee), aka “Dynasty Handbag,” made in collaboration with Sue Slagle (2020 Creative Capital Grantee), aka“SUE-C,” creates a parody of the film in which the Titanic sinks regardless of the iceberg melting due to climate change. Abundantly translated for the screen and in literature, the most notable adaptation of the story is James Cameron’s 1997 Hollywood hit. The sinking of the Titanic is a long-told narrative of class and gender inequality, with the poor, third-class passengers left to drown once the “unsinkable” ship hit an iceberg. ![]()
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