This is an interview with Clyde Peterson just before he went on stage for a live score performance at WSU on October 18, 2016.

Clyde Petersen is a Seattle based artist, working in film, animation, music, installation and
fabulous spectacle. He is a member of the transgender and queer communities in Seattle. He
travels the world with his punk band Your Heart Breaks and hosts a TV show in a small
handmade boat in the Washington Park Arboretum. Boating with Clyde features artists from
around the world, performing on the waterways of Seattle and can be seen online. Past projects
also include the 90-minute multimedia show Gender Failure with Rae Spoon and Ivan Coyote.
His work has been featured around the world at the London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival,
SXSW, the Henry Art Gallery, the Walker Art Gallery, Portland State University, Western
Washington University, Bumbershoot Arts Festival, Seattle Lesbian and Gay Film Festival and
many more. His clients include The Thermals, Kimya Dawson, Laura Veirs, Earth, Minor Alps,
Quasi, Deerhoof, Sean Nelson, The Portland Cello Project and Thao with the Get Down Stay
Down to name a few. He has been awarded grants for filmmaking from the New England
Foundation for the Arts (NEFA), The Neddy at Cornish, the City of Seattle, the Artist Trust
Innovator Award, the Awesome Foundation and 4Culture.

Clyde Peterson. Torrey Pines

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