Chatter Marks EP 40 Infusing life and art with Charles J. Tice

Crude Conversations

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Society & Culture

5 • 884 Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2022

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Charles J. Tice is a visual and literary creative in Anchorage, Alaska with an emphasis on photography and gonzo journalism. He's currently in-residence, at the Anchorage Museum, working on a project called Artist Proof #6. It’s a book that’ll feature 100 photographs of strangers, assisted by a narrative. The writing is important, he says, probably the most important part of the project. So, he works on a typewriter because it’s less about technical precision and more about getting his ideas onto the page. He says the project is a love song, and that it’s as much about discovering who he is as it is about representing his community. Most of the work that he does is a first person narrative. He creates gonzo journalism, infusing himself into a story and becoming part of it. This was true when he quit a steady job to work on a political campaign that he believed in; It was true when he hitchhiked across the United States, photographing people and talking to them about their lives; It was true when he tracked down his birth mother; And it’s true now. Because, more often than not, his life and his work are one and the same — they’re forever intertwined and feeding off each other.

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0:00.0	Because to be honest, cutty something's missing here.
0:14.4	There's a component that's missing in all this and all the pages that are strapped up
0:18.6	on the seed lab right now, you know, words and images.
0:25.4	This is Charles J. Tyson.
0:27.4	He's a visual and literary creative in Anchorage, Alaska, with an emphasis on photography
0:32.3	and Gonzo journalism.
0:34.1	I keep thinking that there's a component that's missing and that's heritage, so be it.
0:37.9	If it's something else, so be that.
0:40.7	But there's something and there's a tie-in, there's a definition, there's an underlying,
0:45.5	there's a lynch pan that's missing and I don't know what that is yet and I want to discover
0:54.0	it.
0:55.0	Because once I do, everything I think will fall in the place.
1:00.4	Charles is currently in residence at the Anchorage Museum, working on a project called Artist
1:04.4	Proof No. 6.
1:05.6	It's a book that'll feature 100 photographs of strangers, assisted by a narrative.
1:11.4	The writing is important, he says, probably the most important part of the project.
1:16.1	So he works on a typewriter because it's less about technical precision and more about
1:20.4	getting his ideas onto the page.
1:23.4	He says that the project is a love song and that it's as much about discovering who
1:27.2	he is as it is about representing his community.
1:31.7	Most of the work that he does is a first person narrative.
1:34.9	He creates Gonzo journalism, infusing himself into a story and becoming part of it.
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