Resident Spotlight 2010: Sean Carroll

Inaugural participant in EFA Project Space's 
Residency for Arts Workers as Artists

Sean Carroll is an arts administrator, currently working on the Artist Residencies team at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.

We asked each resident to tell us about their work and their experience during the residency, and more about their professional lives as both artists and arts workers. Here are Sean's answers...

What Sean is working on: 

Over the past several months I have been collecting video footage of the routine (and not-so-routine) travels of my daily life.  I have pointed my camera off trains, cars, bicycles, planes, and boats interested in highlighting my never-ending movements and the constantly changing landscape around me.  I am spending my time during the residency focusing on editing the videos into short vignettes of specific journeys I have taken over the last eight months. 

Sean's experience so far:
The time here has been tremendous.  Just the knowledge that a space is set aside for me to work on this specific project has been incredibly encouraging. I have been putting off this project for months and it is finally now being realized.  While the physical support of studio space is nice the 'conceptual' support of a residency and the community it provides is meaning so much more to me at this point.  To exhibit, I can edit these video in my apartment space, yet I do not.  The act of participating in a program with a set end date has propelled me to put my ass in the chair and just do it.

Sean Carroll is an artist and arts administrator based in New York City. He currently works on the Artist Residencies team at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC), managing two residency programs that transform vacant space in the Financial District and on Governors Island into studio, rehearsal, presentation, and office space for grantees in the visual, performing, and literary arts.  His artworks have been included in exhibitions in New York, Washington, DC, Northern Virginia, and North Carolina.  He studied photography at Pratt Institute.