In Process

Willow Hamilton [indexthumb]
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Connective, intimate, and practical conversations with emerging artists and their creative practices. In Process is a show dedicated to supporting new artists and sharing their experiences of navigating the art world. It's rooted in the belief that artists are stronger, more creative, and more intelligent in community than in competition. 

Episodes

  1. JUL 11

    indexthumb: Dancing with Images

    Surprise! We perform a switcheroo with Willow a.k.a. indexthumb landing in the hot seat this episode, as longtime collaborator Freddy Avis/Arswain takes the interviewing reins. In this one-off episode, Willow reveals their journey from narrative filmmaking to video installation and movement performance, following a pivotal MA degree in Artist Film and Moving Image at Goldsmiths University in 2024.  Starting with their initial inspirations of slapstick comedy, Willow recounts their first encounters with the camera, all the way up to their contemporary fascination with perception, dance, and the ways in which images and bodies produce each other reciprocally. Touching on everything from perceptual processes to trans experience and the politics of art, this is a wide-ranging conversation guided masterfully by Freddy that will be particularly useful for filmmakers seeking to broaden their practice beyond the narrative tradition. If you like In Process, please hit that follow button and consider sharing the podcast with a friend or two! If you’d like to support us, you can click on this link to become a subscriber from just $3/month. Every contribution helps make this show better and spread the practices of emerging artists. Artist Biography indexthumb (British, London-based, they/them) is a visual artist working with moving image, performance and photography. Their multimedia video installations explore queer embodiment, invisibility, and the increasing tension between physical and virtual space. Centering their trans+ body as a phenomenological site of inquiry, they combine spontaneous composition with kinetic editing and visual effects to uncover the perceptual processes by which we constitute modern, frame-based selfhood. IG Handles Show: @inprocess__show Willow: @indexthumb Arswain: @arswain__ Texts & Links indexthumb website Salome Credit Excerpt Ghosts of My Life by Mark Fisher On Photography by Susan Sontag The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard Timestamps 00:00 Introduction 01:52 Initial inspirations  04:54 Willow's First Film 09:36 Preserving creative rawness  15:09 Living in Berlin 17:45 Video installation: Commute 24:50 Transitions in gender and practice 27:40 Starting to dance 31:30 Misconceptions about dance 34:50 Decision to do an MA  41:00 Masculinity and biography in Call on Me, Me, Me 46:11 Disorientation and climate narrative in Today I Saved the World 50:41 Pressure to incorporate politics 57:11 Solace in community 64:00 SMELTING Support the show

    1h 8m

  2. APR 8

    Soft Shock: Curating with Softness

    Art curation is changing. Today, we are joined by Soft Shock, a new London-based curating collective, who share how emerging curators are approaching this traditionally elite practice of culture-gathering in more public, relational and sustainable ways. It's a fascinating glimpse behind the curtain of one of the most critical pivot points in the artist to gallery pipeline, as well as an inspiring conversation that challenges us to think critically about what it truly means to make work that is accessible and meaningful to a community audience. If you're enjoying In Process, please hit that follow button and consider sharing the podcast with a friend or two! If you’d like to support us, you can click on this link to become a subscriber from just $3/month: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1483117/support Every contribution helps make this show better and spread the practices of emerging artists. Biography Founded in 2024, soft shock is a London-based curatorial collective led by curators Júlia Polo and Georgie Worth. With a commitment to sustainable and socially-engaged practices, their curatorial ethos is shaped by interdisciplinary research in the fields of gender, health, care, and identity. Through collaborative projects, they aim to mediate active modes of participation and facilitate spaces for communal knowledge sharing, analogue processes and mindful encounters. IG Handles Soft Shock: @softshockcollective Show: @inprocess__show Willow: @indexthumb Lawrence: @lawrencewilson3663 Freddy: @arswain__ Texts & Links Soft Shock Website Gasworks Sound Workshop Arts Council Grants Eek! Timestamps 00:00 Intro 02:15 Origins and Curating with softness 05:18 What do curators do? 10:08 Artist-curator collaboration 13:08 Working with art spaces 17:37 Networking 22:43 Curators and audiences 31:23 Changes in personal relationship to art 35:42 Incorporating more-than-human perspectives 39:40 Animals as audiences 42:09 Funding and earning as a curator 48:20 Contemporary rural art 57:12 What’s next 01:01:35 Artist’s way Support the show

    1h 7m

  3. FEB 15

    Sanee Raval: Acting from a Place of Intuition

    We're off to tread the boards with actor Sanee Raval! In a sensitive and thought-provoking conversation, Sanee reflects on tuning the actor's sense of intuition to guide their practice, and heeding the creative call to pursue a career in acting. We touch on their new short film Kiln, and their experience of both directing and performing in their own production. Sanee provides valuable insight into the various pathways through which to approach a career as an actor, alongside some beautiful anecdotes chronicling the at-times mystical connection to the world that acting can foster. If you enjoy In Process, please hit that follow button and consider sharing the podcast with a friend or two! If you’d like to support us, you can click on this link to become a subscriber from just $3/month: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1483117/support Every contribution helps make this show better and spread the practices of emerging artists. We're here every month speaking with some of the most exciting new artists bubbling up. Artist Biography Sanee Raval is an actor, writer, and director. They have appeared in TV shows such as I May Destroy You and Cold Feet, as well as Plays, most prominantly the lead in Tennessee Williams’ Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore at Charing Cross Theatre. Sanee has also written for The Forge and Channel 4 and been optioned by various other production companies. In addition to acting, Sanee is currently working on their first novel and preparing to release their directorial debut film, Kiln. Sanee works with the unconscious as part of their creative process. The dream world and blood memory. Social and IG Handles Sanee IMDB: https://m.imdb.com/name/nm7459373/?ref_=nm_mv_close Show: @inprocess__show Willow: @indexthumb Arswain: @arswain__ Lawrence: @lawrencewilson3663 Texts & Links Truth by Susan Batson Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller On Directing Film by David Mamet Schitt's Creek Inside the Actor's Studio Timestamps 00:00 Intro 03:46 What drew you to acting? 04:45 The value of an acting teacher 06:13 Career path into acting 06:47 Sanee’s first agent 08:35 How Sanee and Willow met 08:55 Thoughts on acting school 10:35 Self-education as an actor 12:22 Intuition in daily life 13:30 Daily practices 15:28 Earning income as an actor 17:27 ~Break~ 17:53 Actor/director advice 21:23 Actor’s ‚Need‘ 23:03 Playing villains and criminals 25:58 Sanee’s acting idols 27:18 Stage vs. screen acting 30:11 ~Break~ 30:40 What’s next for Sanee 31:35 Previous writing career 34:33 Challenges of writing for shows 36:10 Regulating energy on set 38:22 Working in America 40:34 Social Media and personal silence 43:28 Childhood memories of film 44:20 Favourite acting memory 46:31 Secret craft 47:56 Outro  Credits Hosted by Willow Hamilton / indexthumb Produced and Mastered by Lawrence Wilson Main Theme by Arswain Music Interludes by Lawrence Wilson Logo by Willow Hamilton / indexthumb Support the show

    49 min

  4. JAN 8

    Emelie Victoria: Forests, Correspondence, and the Art of Gifting

    We kick Season 2 off with Emelie Victoria, a photographer and visual anthropologist investigating human and non-human relationships in Swedish forests. Emelie leads us through the ethical woods of working with different communities and introduces us to the term correspondence. Developed by anthropologist Tim Ingold from his work with the indigenous Sámi people, correspondence refers broadly to the idea of reciprocity and shared exchange within any sort of relationship: I give, you give, we change together. In the context of an art practice, this gives rise to intriguing possibilities such as conceiving of art as an act of gift-giving. Join us for a cozy and deeply-felt return to 2025 that will be of particular interest to any listeners considering an MFA, collaboration or artistic research. If you like In Process, please hit that follow button and consider sharing the podcast with a friend or two! If you’d like to support us, you can click on this link to become a subscriber from just $3/month. Every contribution helps make this show better and spread the practices of emerging artists. Artist Biography Emelie Victoria is a photographer, researcher and multimedia storyteller currently based in Sweden. She was born 1997 in Edeby, Värmland in Sweden, but now the regions around Klarälven, Zambezi and Thames all feel like some sort of home. They like learning, relating, doing and undoing through explorative exchange and ethnography. Climate justice, critical and queer ecology, (sub)cultures, regenerative methods, care and belonging are some themes she likes to write and work around. They have worked in-house with content, campaigns and reporting for Amnesty International Sweden and United Nations Development Programme Zimbabwe. Having achieved an MA in Visual Anthropology from Goldsmiths University, London, she is now approaching film and photography as a means to do research about their surroundings and tell stories with depth, contradiction and nuance. IG Handles Show: @inprocess__show Emelie: @emelievictoria Timimie Marak: @timimiemarak Willow: @indexthumb Arswain: @arswain__ Texts & Links A Trilogy of New Indigenous Writing (2020), various authors Correspondence as Care (2024), Emelie Isaksen Emelie’s Website Ressemblage (1982),Trin T. Minh-ha Correspondences (2020), Tim Ingold Vem Är Du Som Bor Här? (2020), Fani Sjödahl & Alva Jeppsson Braiding Sweetgrass (2013), Robin Kimmerer Support the show

    56 min

  5. 12/11/2020

    Freddy Avis: Electronic Musician & Composer

    Episode 5: Writing & Producing Music. Today we speak with the other mind behind In Process: Freddy Avis, a sharp, futuristic musician for the 21st Century. Based in Highland Park, Los Angeles, Freddy got his start working under acclaimed composer James S. Levine (Glee, American Horror Story, Bloodline, Nip Tuck, The Last Ship) for two years at Hans Zimmer’s Remote Control Productions in Santa Monica, CA. Since then Freddy holds music credits on hit shows including Major Crimes, Instinct, Star, & Chambers, as well as countless placements on Tiger King, Shark Tank, Dateline, & The Dr. Oz Show. He’s also contributed synth & percussion work on James Newton Howard’s scores for Walt Disney features Jungle Cruise and Raya and the Last Dragon. But even more enticing is Freddy's electronic alter ego, Arswain, under which he composes dark, inspiring, and profoundly eco-conscious music for our time. 2020 has seen the release of his debut album, Partitioning, as well as several music videos for the project. Freddy holds a pair of Bachelor's degrees in Music and Political Science from Stanford University. During his Stanford tenure, Freddy pitched for Stanford's baseball team and was drafted by the Washington Nationals in the 25th round of the 2012 Major League Baseball Draft. Instagram:  @arswain__ Websites: freddyavismusic.com, arswainofficial.com Soundcloud Videos: Pleasure (music video) In Process Instagram: @inprocess__show Recorded in Berlin/L.A. on 10.13.20 Support the show

    1h 11m

  6. 12/10/2020

    Patty Kim Hamilton: Playwright & Director

    Episode 4: The Writing Life. Welcome to a very cozy episode of In Process, as we settle down with Patty Kim Hamilton, and venture into the uncertain limbos -- as wells as the heavens -- of poetry and playwriting. A playwright, director-dramaturg, pisces and performance-maker, Patty is currently completing her masters in Playwriting at the University of the Arts, Berlin. She received her Bachelors with Honors from Stanford University, where she was the recipient of the Sherifa Omade Edoga Prize for Work Addressing Social Issues. She has worked at Playwrights Horizons, Crowded Fire, HAU, the English Theater Berlin, Ars Nova and with Gob Squad. As Playwright-in-Residence in 2019 at the Shakespeare Academy at Stratford, CT, she developed her play ‘Peeling Oranges’. Her play ‘ICH HÄTTE GERN ZU MEINER LEBZEIT KEIN KRIEG (I don't wanna experience war)’ will premiere at Stadttheater Bremerhaven, June 2021 (delayed due to COVID). Her play 'when it hurts // this body is just a house' was a semi-finalist for the 2020 Eugene O'Neill Playwrights Conference and was selected for Cimientos 2021 Play Development Program. Her play ‘Sex Play’ will have a staged reading in October 2020 at the HfMT in Hamburg. Her work exists at the intersection of the intimate and the political - meditating on bodies, family, language and the taboo. Through her writing, she attempts to facilitate communal healing, honest/transformative reflection and joy. Website: pattykimhamilton.com Instagram: @grumpy.love Videos: The Crane Wives (performance excerpt) In Process Instagram: @inprocess__show Recorded in Berlin on 08.07.20 Support the show

    1h 23m

  7. 12/10/2020

    Carly Lave: Choreographer & Dancer

    Episode 2: Digital Dances. Start touching those toes, because we are in the dance studio today with Carly Lave, an American choreographer and dancer based in Berlin. Her work seeks to question the self and personal subjectivity through movement, specifically in a female body, pulling on aesthetics of contemporary ballet. She holds a BA in American Studies and Dance from Stanford University where she trained with Alex Ketley, Robert Moses, Bobbi Jene Smith, Diane Frank and Muriel Maffre among others. She was a 2018-2019 US Fulbright Fellow to Germany (in residency with Tanzfabrik Berlin) developing dance with motion-capture technology and Virtual Reality. Her work furthers the human engagement with technology, pushing the boundary of what dance can reveal about the human condition in the 21st century. Currently she is developing an international dance workshop series titled Golem-Labor with the Goethe Institute which works with motion capture technology and movement. Her work has been commissioned by the Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin, shown at Uferstudios and Tanzfabrik Berlin; she has also given lectures on art+tech at the Republica Digital Technology conference, and Stanford University, Cottbus Technical University, Lüneberg University, and Humboldt Universität zu Berlin. She previously worked in San Francisco, California, where her work appeared in theatres including ODC San Francisco, the San Francisco Conservatory of Dance, and the Joe Goode Annex. Website: carlylave.com Instagram: @carlylave__ Videos: Golem Making-Of Golem Special Edition In Process Instagram: @inprocess__show Recorded in Berlin on 07.27.20 Support the show

    59 min

  8. 12/10/2020

    Anna Tskhovrebov: Experimental Sound Artist & Programmer

    Episode 3: Engineering The Sonic Zone. We're off to the ears today with Anna Tskhovrebov, an experimental musician among other things such as audio engineer at Ableton, live visuals programmer, and avid bird-listener. Anna graduated from Stanford in 2018 with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, and an M.A. in Music, Science, and Technology. She moved continents to Berlin, to work alongside Robert Henke on designing the graphics for his retro-futuristic audiovisual show, CBM 8032 AV, before settling in to program instruments and effects at music software company Ableton. Anna also composes her own music under the name viewfinder, sampling unexpected and haunting sounds from our everyday environments, and putting them in conversation with each other in funky, IDM-inspired soundscapes. viewfinder Soundcloud CBM 8032 AV Videos: CBM 8032 AV Doc (FACT Magazine) In Process Instagram: @inprocess__show Recorded in Berlin on 08.02.20 Support the show

    1h 15m

  9. 12/10/2020

    Diante Singley: Independent Filmmaker

    Episode 1: Independent Filmmaking. Welcome to In Process! A series of intimate, long-form conversations with emerging Stanford artists. For our inaugural episode, we meet Diante Singley, who was raised in Los Angeles and graduated from Stanford University in 2014. Already a young veteran of the L.A. media scene, he has worked variously as an assistant cameraman, a production designer and most recently as the personal assistant for directors Eli Roth and Michael Dougherty. As a filmmaker, Singley has written and directed a variety of documentary shorts and short films that have tackled race, sexuality, economic status and identity. He has won numerous awards including Best New Filmmaker at the San Francisco Black Film Festival, as well as an audience award for his short Downpour Summer at the HollyShorts film festival. He is currently a directing fellow for Film Independent’s PROJECT INVOLVE program. Website: www.diantesingley.com Instagram: @diantesingley @downpoursummerfilms Videos: Remote Capture (short film) Downpour Summer (short film) In Process Instagram: @inprocess__show Recorded in Berlin/L.A. on 08.06.2020 Support the show

    1h 27m
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Connective, intimate, and practical conversations with emerging artists and their creative practices. In Process is a show dedicated to supporting new artists and sharing their experiences of navigating the art world. It's rooted in the belief that artists are stronger, more creative, and more intelligent in community than in competition. 

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  • Creator
    Willow Hamilton [indexthumb]
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2025
  • Episodes
    9
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2025 In Process
  • Show Website
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