Intro music0:15 - Y2K GROUP CHAT introduction0:34 - Tamen bio1:07 - Hi1:52 - What have you been up to?3:23 - Update on school4:23 - How did you adapt to not having studio access at Yale during quarantine?5:52 - Minimal materials6:27 - How does music inspire your work?8:08 - What’s been new with Y2K?10:50 - Y2K-NOW idea, future shows, learning to pivot14:11 - Making work from home vs. studio16:54 - Painting process as workout?17:57 - What books are you reading?20:09 - Were you familiar with Afro-Caribbean history?21:01 - Costa Rica22:52 - Manga and some inspiration25:39 - What types of materials do you use?29:05 - Relationship to history of painting30:32 - Unlearning32:54 - After undergrad to New York and moving to Berlin35:34 - 7-8 years in Berlin39:38 - Berlin art scene or music scene41:38 - Learning German and still adapting44:27 - How was your past solo show at stadium?49:23 - How did your work first change in grad school?51:32 - Voice and hand in painting53:09 - Ideas for thesis56:44 - Spring studio visits57:57 - Love of painting and being anti58:56 - Costa Rican landscape painting and colonialism1:00:34 - Going back to the history and re-evaluating1:02:09 - Painting conversation in New York1:05:34 - Thank you!