Superpowers and Guiding Principles: Defining What You Want to Sustain

EPISODE 2:

SUPERPOWERS AND GUIDING PRINCIPLES: DEFINING WHAT YOU WANT TO SUSTAIN

with Nao Bustamante, Todd Gray, Gelare Khoshgozaran, and Jennifer Moon.

Moderated by Mario Ontiveros

In this episode, the artists pick up their conversation from last week. They discuss strategies for protecting the time needed to make work. They get into the economic and pedagogical challenges of working with emerging artists in MFA programs. And assert the importance of defining what drives your goals and learning to sustain that.



This session was recorded back in December 2019. But you’ll hear how the pandemic, the protests, and the failures of the government have only shed more light on the intersection of inequity, racism, and injustice that compels the work of these artists.



Conceptually we all can understand how these systems of oppression work, but how it sits in the body—being unable to shake that feeling of unworthiness, or feeling fraudulent—is really difficult." —Jennifer Moon

Find more info about the artists and the podcast here.