Oral history interview with Chitra Ganesh
name: label: Interviewee
content: Ganesh, Chitra, 1975-
label: Interviewer
content: Gillespie, Benjamin, 1988-
label: Names
content: Pandemic Oral History Project
topic: label: Occupation
content: Multimedia artists -- New York (State) -- Brooklyn
label: Topic
content: COVID-19 (Disease)
label: Topic
content: Pandemics
label: Topic
content: Asian American art
label: Topic
content: Asian American artists
label: Topic
content: Women artists
label: Topic
content: Asian American multimedia artists
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: This interview is part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and administrators.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Ganesh, Chitra, 1975-
label: Interviewer
content: Gillespie, Benjamin, 1988-
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Chitra Ganesh (1975 - ) is an multimedia artist in Brooklyn, New York. Ganesh examines feminine and queer representation in mythology and pop culture through media including digital collage, comics, sculpture, and murals.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Item ((27 min.), digital, mp4)
phystech: label: Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
content: Recorded on Zoom (videoconferencing software)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 2020 September 1
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.ganesh20
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Video recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Video recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview with Chitra Ganesh conducted 2020 September 1, by Benjamin Gillespie, for the Archives of American Art's Pandemic Oral History Project, at Ganesh's home in Brooklyn, New York.­