Clip: Season 11 Episode 2 | 1m 3s | Video has closed captioning.
Artist Anicka Yi runs her studio as if it’s a laboratory, developing hypotheses, testing them in small trials, and bringing in experts to help bring them to life as the idea is refined. Through footage of the studio and the installation leading up to an exhibition, we see the diverse disciplines she draws inspiration from, as well as the wide range of materials she works with.
Aired: 06/23/23
♪ethereal oscillating synths♪ - [Anicka VO] I'm quite omnivorous in the areas and disciplines where I draw from.
Before it's even a fully-fleshed idea, I start small trials in the studio, much like you would do in a laboratory.
As the trials start to bear fruit, we bring in the experts to help us, whether it's a software engineer or a forensic chemist or a perfumer.
I look to the natural sciences, synthetic sciences, artificial intelligence research.
That seems like a very maximalist approach, but I think that we can't really discount how we are influenced by all of these different systems and ideas and information.
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