Season 3 Episode 3 | Joshua Tonies

For this episode, Hernease sits with former resident, Joshua Tonies… twice, due to technical issues with their first audio recording. Joshua was extremely generous to record for a second time to speak about his residency experience, his layered obsession with house plants and how he uses animation technology to make the intangible, tangible. This episode will be a hybrid combination of the first and second recording. For every interview, Hernease asks each resident to answer the question, “Where are you from?” Joshua’s answer during that first conversation was too wonderful not to include. So please bear with the audio quality for the first 12 minutes of their discussion.

And stay tuned at the very end for an epilogue discussion with Joshua around a very special piece he made during his time in residency at VSW.

A transcript of this episode can be found here https://www.vsw.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Season-3-Episode-3-Joshua-Tonies.pdf

Joshua Tonies Reference links joshtonies.com/ www.vsw.org/exhibition/josh-tonies/ www.phasegallery.com/kilo-quebec

Farrah Karapetian: www.farrahkarapetian.com Bridget Riley: https://bridget-riley.publications.britishart.yale.edu/catalogue/19

Nilson Carroll: http://nilsoncarroll.com Queer Games Bundle: https://www.vsw.org/vsw-salon/salon-spring-2023/april-13-queer-games-bundle/


Project Space Podcast Update: Ligia Bouton has completed her public art installation, “25 Variable Stars”, now on view in Boston’s Cambridge’s Kendall/MIT subway station. The installation honors the astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt. Ligia speaks about this work on the podcast in Season 2 and 3.

Please also watch and listen to Ligia’s lecture about her work on the occasion of the opening of “25 Variable Stars”, given at the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics: shttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbYjoF88ye4