ARTIST STATEMENT

Through video, poetry, and performance, I assemble a transforming world inspired by Jill Johnston’s definition of intermedia, articulated as: “Re-integration. The everything as everything. The organism as totally illegal. The legality of nothing but pleasure.” I get intimate with everyday materials through commitment to DIY queer aesthetics. Resisting internalized perfectionism that hungers for polished and sanitized art products, residues of my process litter my works, highlighting the unfinished or mistake: a misread line, a poorly lit green screen, scuff marks, eraser crumbs. 

SHORT BIO

Intermedia artist and poet, e clayton scofield (they/them) creates multimedia work that threads together poetic narrative, performance and moving image.

clay’s work has been featured in publications including Black Warrior Review, Number, Wussy, and Dinner Bell, and their films have been screened at Cucalorus Festival and Open Air Media Festival. They have performed and exhibited nationally and been an artist-in-residence with Cucalorus, The School of Making Thinking, Lazuli, and the JHU-MICA Film Centre. clay holds MFAs in studio art from Indiana University and poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.

As Associate Arts Editor of Brink Literary Journal, board member of The School of Making Thinking , and facilitator of the ongoing collaborative new media writing experiment, The Daily Weather Report, they support artists thinking collaboratively beyond discipline and in community.

CONTACT

‍ ‍eclaytonscofield @ gmail.com