AS IT WAS GIVE(N) TO ME with Stacy Kranitz

Photography! Poverty Porn! Drawing in Space! Spiderwebs!

Field Pod sits down with Field Projects current resident Stacy Kranitz for a talk about her take on documentary photography as a medium best used to question the truth of & in the image. Photographers constantly have to reckon with subjectivity. Stacy explains the ways she has pushed against the medium in her new book AS IT WAS GIVE(N) TO ME, a compilation based on over 12 years spent photographing the community living in the heartland of Appalachia. Incorporating pressed plants, topographic drawings, and preserved spiderwebs alongside her photography and voices drawn from a local newspaper column, Kranitz weaves a complex narrative that opens the history of Appalachia to the reader. Through these juxtapositions of text, image, and drawing a narrative of everyday life emerges in the wake of the systemic capitalist oppression that characterizes this region of the USA. 

Before this exciting conversation, Field Projects Co-Directors Jacob Rhodes and Kris Racaniello chat about the residency program and open call process. They talk the gallery/gallerist class system, the origins of Field Projects and the Open Call process, and MONEY and survival in contemporary art. Jacob and Kris wrap things up after the interview with a short list of shows to “go see” right now! 

 

SHOW NOTES

Interviewee Social Handles & Websites

Stacy Kranitz: @stacykranitz https://www.stacykranitz.com/ 

Our OPEN CALL: http://www.fieldprojectsgallery.com/open-call 

GO SEEs:

Recalling the Chimæra, Candace Jensen, Thomas Little & Coleman Stevenson, Amos Eno Gallery @ 56 Bogart Street, May 6- June 5, 2022 

Wonder Women, Curated by Kathy Huang, Jeffrey Deitch @ 18 Wooster Street, May 7–June 25, 2022  

Art Fair radar last week/this week: 

Future Fair: https://futurefairs.com/ 

Independant: https://www.independenthq.com/fair 

Frieze: https://www.frieze.com/fairs/frieze-new-york