Kelly Lloyd

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Kelly Lloyd is a transdisciplinary artist and educator who focuses on issues of representation and knowledge production and prioritizes public-facing collaborative research. Recent exhibitions include No Show Space (London) and National Sculpture Factory (Cork), and recent publications include HAIR + WAITING (Occasional Gallery Press, 2024) and “This is the End of High Entertainment: Tiny Furniture and This is The End” in Through a Glass, Darkly: Screening the Art World (Amsterdam University Press, 2022). In 2022, Lloyd launched This Thing We Call Art, a podcast and online resource featuring excerpts from 62+ interviews with people in the arts she has conducted since 2017. Lloyd currently lives in London and works at the Reading School of Art. www.klloyd.com

On Holi-delay

Kelly Lloyd presents a new scientific study on holi-delay, “a condition where people only get excited about holidays after they happen,” that evidences a cultural shift in how we set expectations for meaningful holiday celebrations.

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