Eric Fleischauer, Universal Paramount, 2010, digital image, dimensions variable
“Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.” -A.A. Milne
Much is said about enjoying the journey. This can be a difficult task to achieve in our results-driven society. Many of us feel compelled to simply deliver, get to the endpoint of a thing and call it complete. Give yourself permission to slow down. To stand in the moment and bear witness to your progress as it happens. In this way, you will begin to understand your own ways of working, your strengths, the places where you need to put in more work. You will begin to see the journey for
itself.
Eric Fleischauer spoke to us in October when he discussed the way the pandemic has affected his work. The last few years have fractured his ability to mentally process the way he used to. A professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, he was teaching a full load when lockdown began and found himself forced to move
immediately to online teaching. This took over more of his free time than teaching did previously as he worked to navigate the switch. This, unfortunately, negatively impacted his personal artistic practice. In terms of his art, Fleischauer is working on multiple projects. One, a large project he has been working on for some time, involves his purchase of a used police body camera from which he pulled hundreds of videos filmed by the Anaheim police department. To hear more about this and other
work, listen to the complete interview.
Ben Balcom has found the pandemic deeply challenging. A number of his projects were interrupted at the beginning of lockdown, though he says in many ways he feels very lucky in his personal sphere. The maintenance of creative energy and projects has been challenging for him as a filmmaker whose practice revolves around working with
others. To make himself useful, he has become involved in activism and protests as part of Milwaukee’s Democratic Socialist Association well as some online activities. To hear more about Balcom’s work and how the pandemic has changed the way he operates, listen to the complete interview.
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