I talk about my work

• 聖地巡礼の新たなかたち。セマーン・ペトラが映すフィクションと現実の境界とは？/ A new form of pilgrimage. What is the boundary between fiction and reality
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• About their distance / Petra Szemán in conversation with Patrick W. Galbraith (archived from Feb 2024)
  
  Recording of an online talk event that was conducted for the launch of my video 'About their distance' (2023), broadcasted on Zoom and Twitch on 29 February 2024. This is the edited down version of an originally 2+ hr conversation.
  The talk/in conversation centres around the awkward intensities of fandom, anime pilgrimage (seichi junrei), slipping into the virtual, desire for movement, the capacity of multilayered entanglements with the fictional as an alter-politics, and queer hope.

• Screen Walk (archived from 20 Oct 2021), in conversation with Jamie Sutcliffe

'(...) While exploring Petra’s working methods, references, storyboards and in-progress AfterEffects compositions, Petra and Jamie talked about collaborative creativity, class, weirdness, trans-cultural exchange, fandom, a shared appreciation of animation, and being a nerd in the art world.'
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• Artist talk for No Death, Only Respawn (archived from 22 Oct 2022) at Nitja Centre for Contemporary Art,
  in conversation with Nicolas Hughes

PEOPLE HAVE WRITTEN ABOUT MY WORK

• Gemma Fantacci's beautiful essay about the Monomyth: gaiden series

'Experiencing Life as Cinematic Fiction: The marvelous within the daily media landscape'
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• Jamie Sutcliffe's 'On Animatics' for ArtMonthly

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• Mihai Băcăran's interpretation of my old video Trajectories (2017!) from a lens of disorientation, mapping and complex identities

'(Dis)orientation in net art: Disrupting the feedback loop of cybernetic subjectivities'
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PEOPLE TALK TO ME ABOUT THINGS

• Interviewed by Gemma Fantacci

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• Interviewed by Bob Bicknell-Knight, scattered through an online showcase

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• Interviewed by Durham University Art Society, about the 'Vug' Durham Digitale x Killhope Lead Mining Museum commission

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