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Kalup Linzy Biography

Kalup Linzy (born July 23, 1977) is an American video and performance artist who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. His performance are characterized by their low-tech quality, themes of community, socializing, family, the church, sexuality and homosexuality.

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Every artist's world is an individual experience and no one thing can prepare you. You have to go in and go where those roles lead you - just allow it to happen and follow your path.

Artist, Follow, Happen, Prepare, Roles, World

When you get a critique, people think you're criticizing them but it's really an intellectual conversation. You can't get emotionally attached.

Conversation, Criticizing, Critique, Intellectual, People, Thinking

As artists, sometimes our work is chaotic; we don't easily communicate our needs to other people in a way that they understand.

Artist, Communicate, Needs, People, Way

I almost feel like if I didn't have the gallery and museum content it would be easy to get lost. People's attention spans are so short; they see something and it trends for a few days and then it goes away and something else comes.

Days, Lost, Museums, People, Trends, Would Be

Sometimes I just cringe. I can feel the emotion, that whole anxiety of being in this new world that I sort of evolved into. I would just do it, put it out there, and go for it.

Anxiety, Cringe, Emotion, World

I cast people from right around me. I was at my alma mater. It's special to have most of the graduate students in it [and] one professor, because I feel like in terms of this school, I was one of the few students lucky enough to break into the art industry or the contemporary art world.

Art, Mater, People, School, Terms, World

I'm actually looking for a gallery, but the thing is some galleries just want to show the video work and some are just interested in the 2-D work. It has to be a gallery where I can do the 2-D collages, the video, and live performance, where it's not this weird conflict, where it can all move forward.

Actually, Conflict, Moving, Video, Want

I have the dream to continue being in an art context, but also be able to continue doing stuff in television on the web.

Art, Dream, Stuff, Television, Web

I realized that was what was happening in my work already. I think that's where, as artists, we begin to master our craft: when we're able to step back and understand things.

Artist, Crafts, Realized, Step, Think, Thinking

If I have a piece that's solely based on the web and it's going to also exist in a gallery, it needs to exist in a gallery where it doesn't feel redundant.

Based, Gallery, Needs, Pieces, Redundant

If I step out too much while in the process and don't allow myself to get into it, the piece may not get made.

Allow, May, Piece, Pieces, Step, Too Much

What really made me a performance artist was that I was able to step back and assess. I've always had [that ability], but it was coming to an understanding.

Ability, Able, Artist, Back, Understanding

Even though the art world goes through trends, you do know that it'll come up again.

Art, Though, Trends, World

You can talk yourself out of doing something if you start to think about, "How would this person see it, or that person see it?" So sometimes it's allowing myself to be in it and not talking myself out of it.

Allowing, See, Sometimes, Talk, Talking, Thinking

I realized [using my own voice] is what creates the performance in the performance art and that's what helps creates the distance for the viewers, like the distance that I get when I step back.

Art, Back, Distance, Like, Voice

It's interesting how as an artist you keep evolving, but if you can get into the contemporary art space, if the works are in institutions and museums, they keep living on and on and on, even if you move to a different space, that work is still operating.

Art, Moving, Museums, Operating

Sometimes you divorce a part of yourself to save yourself emotionally.

Divorce, Emotionally, Part, Save Yourself, Sometimes

If you want to be somewhere, you should go to that place and check it out.

Check, Checks, Place, Should, Want

You can dwell on things, and if you open your eyes and pay attention to it, those things start popping up around you.

Attention, Dwell, Eye, Pay, Popping

I feel like my perception has changed a little because when I was posting stuff online it was an extension of my studio and then it started getting some of the attention. Now it's like, "Oh, this is actually a place where you can make money," but I'm not interested in competing in that space. It seems like too much to deal with.

Attention, Competing, Extension, Perception, Space

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