Skip to content
HeyJared

Untrained Effort

Exploring performance making, the freelance life and what it means to be an artist in a world up in flames. For people who want to create without permission.

Newsletter · By Lora V Krasteva · Official site

Indexed issues, last 90 days
2
Latest publication
Sep 29, 2026
Audience
Checking…
Earliest in this view
Jul 16, 2026

Latest issues

  1. Issue · Sep 29, 2026

    Reset (opens the original)

    Excerpt · Neutral tone

    Read excerpt

    Earlier this month I spend two luscious weeks near Tomar in Portugal. Studio 459 offers creative residencies to step outside of the daily routine and rest, create, think... It was absolutely glorious. We made a ceramics project using a trunk from a tree fallen during the big storms in January when over 7 million trees were uprooted. We offered it back to the land with a gorgeous ceremony on the solstice. It was a wholesome two weeks. I cannot recommend it enough. Th

  2. Issue · Jul 16, 2026

    Audiences (opens the original)

    Excerpt · Positive tone

    Read excerpt

    What i love about performance is that, whilst you are making something, you have in your mind’s eye a group of people. At least it is like that for me. When i create, there is an invisible group of people in the room - the audience. Many artists do not do that and, in my opinion, it shows. I am firmely in the camp that advocates creating as an act of dialogue, of exchange, of transformation. And none of these things can be achieved if i make in a void, oblivous to the fact that someone, somewher

Publishing over time

Last 90 days. Choose a month to open its work.

Recurring subjects

Named in the text we hold. One piece can cover several.

Audience

No verified audience measurement yet.

About this data

Counts cover the work we have indexed. Tone needs enough text and a confident classification. Excerpts and episode notes are not full articles or transcripts.

Identity or attribution wrong? Suggest a correction.

See coverage about Untrained Effort