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Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan

373 - James Ostrer (Artist/Lunatic)

Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan

Chris Ryan

Society & Culture, Arts

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2019

⏱️ 140 minutes

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Summary

James Ostrer has been known to dress himself in the flayed flesh of pigs and take self-portraits as a commentary on, what? How we're all encased in the suffering of other animals? How humans are both sacred and just meat? How "art" is both absurd and utterly serious? I don't know, but James's work is never boring or pretentious, always provocative and thoughtful.

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Music: “Brightside of the Sun,” by Basin and Range; “Water from the Sky,” by Elena B. Williams; “Smoke Alarm,” by Carsie Blanton.



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0:00.0

Radio Mano, Papa Tzango.

0:02.3

term

0:23.5

Hi, Chris. This is Corey calling you from Salt Lake City. I've been a long time

0:33.3

listener of, listen, I've been a fan of yours ever since I first heard you on

0:37.4

Rogan back in I think 2012 or 2013 and I've just been a big fan of yours ever

0:44.0

since. I've got that wonderful thing called PTSD and when you have that

0:49.6

sometimes you feel very alone and isolated in the world and whenever I listen

0:53.5

to tangentially speaking I always feel less so less isolated less alone in the

1:00.5

world and I'm just eternally grateful for you and what you do so thank you

1:05.1

very much. I hope you're doing well. If you're ever in Salt Lake, hit me up.

1:08.9

Bye. Hey Chris, this is Sean coming at you from the Woods of Connecticut. I'm on my

1:16.9

way home from teaching yoga at a prison that I volunteer at. I just wanted to

1:22.0

share a little bit of a beautiful irony that I experience every couple weeks

1:26.5

when I see my boys and I can say anything there most yoga studios I have to be

1:35.3

very peachy rated about what I'm saying but I can tell these guys to flex

1:41.0

their grondole and push their ass in the air and they just eat it up. We talk

1:46.8

about how they're gonna use their new bad-ass yoga moves to pick up ladies

1:51.4

when they get out of there and they fart real loud and we all laugh and we

1:56.5

crack jokes at each other and it's just so wonderful and every time I'm there

2:03.4

I just have this overwhelming gratitude and sensation of amazement because I

2:11.3

have never in my life anywhere in my life felt so not judged and so safe and

2:21.1

so free and that happens inside the walls of a prison. Hello this is Vinny and

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