2017: The Year According to Casey Reas
Ten things that defined 2017 according to Design Media Arts Professor Casey Reas
Artist and Professor Casey Reas shares a personal list of the art, music, dance, film, and experiences that shaped this past year with the Walker Art Center.
"Casey REAS is an artist and educator. He has a studio in Los Angeles and he is a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles in the Department of Design Media Arts. With Ben Fry, he cofounded Processing in 2001.
My first instinct was to fill this list with all of the vile political actions of 2017: the increase of hate crimes, attempts to repeal and sabotage the Affordable Care Act, travel bans, the appointment of Neil Gorsuch, the current tax bill! This list of ten could easily be filled by the cruelty of the first week of December or any week of the year. I am enraged and you probably are too. And, these are things that are probably already on your mind. So, instead of amplifying existing anxieties, I chose to make this list more personal, to share some of the rabbit holes I fell into during 2017.
My most concentrated studio work in 2017 was directing videos for The National’s new album Sleep Well Beast. I constructed visual worlds for six songs in collaboration with the band, Graham MacIndoe, and Matthew Miller. The videos blur distinctions between video, photography, and animation in different ways. They all use collage techniques and visual distortion to elicit specific moods."— Casey Reas, December 14, 2017
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