Lydia Moyer is a media maker and visual artist who lives and works in central Virginia, USA. She is a professor in the art department at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.
"My video and print work is a personal response to a sense of crisis in the world. It casts the individual amidst the collective, wrestling with the overwhelming social, political, and environmental concerns, including climate change, that are the shadow of capitalism. I engage with these concerns alternately by conflating one with another, speaking from the past or future in order to address the present, and playing with the strange and uncanny amidst melancholy and grief. Moving equally and sometimes seamlessly between self-created and existing materials, I hope to evoke a felt-sense of unshielded – and unheroic – awareness through image, sound, and text.."
"My video and print work is a personal response to a sense of crisis in the world. It casts the individual amidst the collective, wrestling with the overwhelming social, political, and environmental concerns, including climate change, that are the shadow of capitalism. I engage with these concerns alternately by conflating one with another, speaking from the past or future in order to address the present, and playing with the strange and uncanny amidst melancholy and grief. Moving equally and sometimes seamlessly between self-created and existing materials, I hope to evoke a felt-sense of unshielded – and unheroic – awareness through image, sound, and text.."
