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Well the thing is that at your core there is a you, and I feel like it’s our purpose in life to figure out who that you is, instead of running away from it. You have such a distinct and specific style for your drawings, does bringing music into that world help keep you entertained? So you don’t get tired of a specific style or medium? Like for tonight, I created some visuals specifically for this, so in that way I get to bring visuals into this. But I’m also bringing them together slowly. So you try to establish a degree of separation between the two mediums. Whereas the music, I can make all the mistakes I want to make because I’m just exploring with that medium. So that’s where I focus and where I try and master it and get better at it. And then the work - the drawing - that I’m mostly known for is like my focus place. And so the music, it can be angry, it can be sad, it can be all these other things, because at the core it’s my happy place, it’s the place where I get to express things. And I think, as creative people, when your main medium becomes, for lack of a better word, your main focus, your job, you don’t really then have that as an outlet to get stuff out anymore. So I banged on the keyboard and it felt good! As one does. I had a keyboard hanging out in my studio for a long time and never used it, and then one day I just felt like - I just wasn’t having a good day. So imagine what I’m doing tonight is like making a drawing, it’s just a different medium.

I might be asking the audience for some words and then use those as a springboard to create a drawing, but instead of the drawing being on a surface, the lines are words and keys. Tonight I have about 20-25 minutes, I have a keyboard - a nice little Yamaha keyboard -, I have some pens, some paper, and a microphone and I’m just gonna show up and improvise some stuff. So this is almost like extracting the live musical part and just doing that section. You know I have a one woman show which is a mixture of three different chapters - a lecture, a live drawing part, and a live musical part. Maybe you could give me some suggestions?

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What’s the extent of your structure going into this performance? So the extent for this night - I don’t think I’ve really done anything like this where I’m just doing the musical side… I haven’t figured out how to really term it so maybe you could help me out after you’ve seen it. But I want to make sure I have the right tools to just show up. There’s more prep on the venue’s side than mine because I don’t know what I’m gonna do. So the preparation is just making sure I have everything I need. How do you prepare for an event like this?įor me, I don’t really have to prepare because a lot of my work is spontaneous, it’s improvised.

Taking words from various audience members, Shantell engaged in all things auditory, featuring word play and music sampled on her keyboard. This performance marks her endeavor into the sonic realm while still incorporating drawing through a set of visuals that played alongside her performance. Known primarily for her drawings which have appeared all over the globe at places like Lincoln Center, the Oculus, the Boston Ballet, the New Britain Museum of Contemporary Arts, and 92Y Gallery, she has also collaborated with the likes of Kendrick Lamar and The North Face. A remarkably organized and stable being, Martin glows with positive energy - and she deserves to. There’s a common trope associated with the persona/title of “artist.” A nocturnal being that sacrifices sleep and anything remotely associable with self-care for the sake of art.

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