Feminism and Aesthetics: Steph Yates on Music and Art (The Secret Ingredient - 03/06/15)

The Secret Ingredient

This week we talk with Steph Yates, a Guelph-based screen-printer, videographer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist about the relationships between music and art. How has the dialogue between the two disciplines developed over time, in various places, and in her practice in particular? Yates discusses the aesthetic and conceptual choices in her music and art, grapples with issues of identity and gender, and talks about what it’s like being a female lead in the music scene. “I think for me the secret ingredient is the thing that you can’t know until it happens, the thing you can’t catch, the mistake you didn’t know you were waiting for until it arrives. It’s just sort of the way things fall and then you see it. Maybe you think of it as fate or chance but you can’t direct it.” Jarmusch, Jim, “My Golden Rules,” MovieMaker, January 22, 2004.