Interview with Anna Buckner

I grew up in Greensboro, NC. My parents met in grad school at UNCG - my dad was studying painting and my mom studied dance. Back then, pre-Anna days, my mom would sometimes model for my dad’s life drawing classes so we had all of these nude paintings of my mom around the house growing up. In reality, it was probably 2 or 3 paintings, but it felt like our house was covered in them. I have this distinct memory of my sister and I frantically running around the house taking them down and hiding them in a closet before one of her birthday parties.

"For Shadowing" at C for Courtside [Review]

C for Courtside’s second annual time-based media exhibition, For Shadowing, opened in Knoxville in March 2019. Audio-visual ephemera from films by Josh Azzarella, Martha Colburn, and Robyn O’Neil set a mysterious atmosphere in the industrial concrete space at 513 Cooper Street, into which the viewer descends via open stairway. Abstract, seemingly randomized ringing tones melt together with specific narrative sound effects. Two projectors at the center of the room cast the work of Azzarella onto one wall, and consecutively rotate works by Colburn & O’Neil on the opposite wall. The darkness acts as ether, from which each artist has laboriously conjured a view into a unique imaginary world. Curator Lynne Ghenov specifically chose these works to engage the spirit of Big Ears Music Festival, a nationally recognized celebration of experimental music and media which takes place annually in Knoxville.