Kindred Gottlieb Q & A w/@NyenyeMK

Name: Kindred Gottlieb                            
Date: 10/28/11

Location: Echo Park                        
Time: 1:00pm


Q:  Who or What inspires you? Why?


 
A:  Movement and sensation.  I believe that all creativity is rooted at the most basic level in movement.  Touch, unlike sound and sight, is not filtered by the thalamus en route to the brain (I was a neuroscience major) and is therefore the most direct contact to the present moment that we have.  


Q:   What does creativity mean to you?


A:  Creativity is an active form of mindfulness requiring that you act from a state of acute focus and mental rigor.  Expressing your creativity reminds you that you are Love/God and that there is an organizing principle to our brain that is way beyond our ability to understand or plan for and as such is a uniquely humbling experience.  


Q:  What is your favorite place in the world?



A:  bed.. OK, I have 2: Xilitla (SLP) Mexico and the southwest coast of Ireland.


Q:  What do you love most in the world?


A:  the sounds of nature


Q:  What are the causes you care about?  How do you actively support these causes with your time, money or other method/resource?


A: homeless rights, immigration rights, indigenous rights, prisoner's rights.  
I keep abreast of developments by listening to radio and podcasts of news stations that I trust like BBC World Service, Pacifica, etc.  Most importantly, I love to talk experientially about our society-- particularly with people whom I don't agree with or who may not have thought about the cause much.  


Q: What question do you want to ask me?


A: Why are you blogging about creativity?
@NMK: Because everyone is creative.


Q:  What question do you wish I asked you and what is your answer to it?

 

Bio:
Kindred is a Sculptor and Lighting Designer.  She started sculpting in 1989 at the LA County High School for the Arts.  She received her BA from Hampshire College where she studied the Neuropsychology of the Creative Process and designed the groundplans for a gigantic walk-through brain.   She has also studied at Chautauqua School of Art, the New York Studio School for Drawing, Painting, and Sculpture, and the Universität der Kunste, Berlin.  While living in Berlin in 2001, she served as Technical Director and Lighting Designer for Dock 11 Dance Studio, created puppets for a touring children's show Max und Moritz, showed her work in a 2-person art exhibit at GASAG- the German gas company, and created a sculpture for a meditation room for HIV patients.  Since returning to LA, she has designed lights for Helios Dance Theater, Body Traffic, String Theory, and the Debbie Allen Dance Academy.  Her artwork has shown at The Hive Gallery,  UCLA Kerckhoff Art Gallery and was recently featured in the motion picture "Chronicals of a Love Unfound".  For 6 years she's served as the Lighting Production Supervisor for the UCLA Theater Department, but is leaving her job in January to spend more time with her 4-year old daughter and other creative ventures.