In Good Company: Sebastien Boncy in Conversation with JD Pluecker

In Good Company is a series of in-depth, online conversations made by and for artists. Adapting the format of a long-form television interview program to the web, IGC allows the time and space for deeper exploration into an artist’s life, work, and influences.

On Saturday, December 2, at 3 p.m., join us live for a virtual conversation between Houston artists Sebastien Boncy and JD Pluecker.

Framed and hosted by Pluecker, the program will focus on Boncy, the artist and one-man collective (Pugilist Press) behind Purple Time Space Swamp, a sprawling, open-source archive of daily pictures taken over the last nine years (and counting) of his adopted city – Houston.

Through an intuitive lens, Boncy chronicles the contradictory truths of a sublimely charming yet inhospitable place driven as much by self-destruction as reinvention. In Boncy’s Houston, people are scarce, but nature grows with and around our man-made progress and failures alike. For him, there is science fiction in what he does – a black man idling in a sidewalk-less boomtown – and in what he sees that can “trigger a strange longing for a new world to come.”

In Good Company is produced by artists Eileen Maxson and Arie Bouman in memory of their late friend and IGC collaborator Vinod Hopson.

HOW TO WATCH & PARTICIPATE

In Good Company programs air live on the Diverseworks website (recordings will be posted for later viewing). Anyone may watch the livestream; no log-in is necessary. When live, an interactive chat will be enabled. To participate, first, enter your name.

ACCESSIBILITY

In Good Company programs will be streamed live with automatic closed captioning enabled.

SUPPORT

In Good Company is produced by Eileen Maxson and Arie Bouman in collaboration with DiverseWorks. In Good Company is funded in part by the City of Houston through the Houston Arts Alliance.