Lecture: Laurel Nakadate Q and R

"Laurel Nakadate (born December 15, 1975) is an American video artist and photographer living in New York City.
Laurel Nakadate was born in Austin, Texas and raised in Ames, Iowa.
Nakadate's 2005 solo show at Danziger Projects, "Love Hotel and Other Stories," was featured in The New York Times, The Village Voice, and Flash Art. Art critic Jerry Saltz named her a "standout" in the 2005 "Greater New York" show at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, N.Y.
Since then Nakadate's work has been exhibited at the Getty Museum, Los Angeles; the Asia Society, New York; the Reina Sofia, Madrid; the Berlin Biennial; Grand Arts, Kansas City; and at Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York. An ten-year retrospective of her work, called Only the Lonely, is on view at MoMA PS1 from January 23 to August 8, 2011.
A cover interview with the artist appeared in the October 2006 issue of The Believer.
Nakadate's first feature-length film, Stay The Same Never Change, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, on January 16, 2009, and was featured in New Directors/New Films 2009 at The Museum of Modern Art and Lincoln Center. Her second feature, The Wolf Knife, premiered at the 2010 Los Angeles Film Festival, and was nominated for a 2010 Gotham Award and a 2011 Independent Spirit Award.
Nakadate currently lives and works in New York City. She is represented by Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects." Bio excerpt from Wiki


Questions

A large portion of your work deals with psychosexual identity and feminism, do you feel that you work is equally accessible to both men and women?

Relating to your work that is currently in the MOMA, since it deals so heavily with voyeurism, loneliness, longing, etc. I sense a commentary about contemporary American society. Do you feel this is the case?