Exhibitionistas - Notes on Art

🔎 Does obscurity lead to creative freedom? Why do I ask? Because of a single sentence in Chris Kraus' book I Love Dick, simply stating that once we accept obscurity, we can do what we want... 📙 This book is a ride through the literary world of the 1990s from the perspective of "the wife of"; it's an exploration of visual art through the perspective of obscurity, complexity and weirdness, and a classic and transgressive exploration of authorship. We discuss: * I Love Dick (duuuuh) * artistic freedom * creative liberation * female cr...

How can I know if the art that I'm enjoying is any good? Which is to say, how do we recognize a talent when looking at art. Is pleasure a real indicator of artistic greatness? How do we know whether we have the tools that fit the unique shape of something completely new? Identifying great art may be trickier but more exciting than we think. We look into Proust, specifically into one of the most intriguing narrative lines of In Search of Lost Time (Vol I): "La Berma", that is the tribulations of the nameless narrator with aesthetic an...

How can I know if the art that I'm enjoying is any good? Which is to say, how do we recognize a talent when looking at art. Is pleasure a real indicator of artistic greatness? How do we know whether we have the tools that fit the unique shape of something completely new? Identifying great art may be trickier but more exciting than we think. We look into Proust, specifically into one of the most intriguing narrative lines of In Search of Lost Time (Vol I): "La Berma", that is the tribulations of the nameless narrator with aesthetic an...

Is there a dark side to creativity? Might it even be necessary? Are artists visionaries? Or is the future contained in the present, and if so, what will you do about it? As a an art writer and curator, Joana P. R. Neves, the host, steps back from her job, and steps into the questions it stimulates, about art and life, creativity and philosophy. And what better tools to explore the point were art intersects with life than books? In this episode, Joana presents and reads excerpts of this week's chosen book, The Invention of Morel (1940...