Creating versus Producing ... a Chance to Reset? [65]
Art Juice: A podcast for artists, creatives and art lovers
Louise Fletcher/Alice Sheridan
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 2020
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
As the UK lockdown continues, we discuss the unfolding situation and the continual emotional shifts we are all experiencing. Here in Britain we are seeing some of our most well-known artists responding in different ways. Tracy Emin wrote an online diary; David Hockney is making new paintings; and Grayson Perry is filming a new TV show designed to encourage people to make art. We ask whether these are helpful reactions. In troubled times, what is the point of it all? Is art relevant? And is this an opportunity for us to switch from a focus on producing work for shows to a new emphasis on creativity and exploration? We also discuss the importance of mental health for our physical well-being, debate potential societal changes, and ask whether we are currently in the midst of a global existential crisis.
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Mark this time on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/markthistime2020/?hl=en
Mark this time on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/markthistime2020/
Tracey Emin - online diary https://www.instagram.com/whitecube/?hl=en
David Hockney paintings https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-52109901
Grayson Perry/Anthony Gormley art kit home.https://firstsite.uk/art-is-where-the-home-is/
Lewis Howes podcast with Dr. Joe Dispenza https://youtu.be/RTuf7OfZ-yY
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| 0:00.0 | Right, I'm wondering if 10 o'clock in the morning is too early to record these. |
| 0:06.0 | Is your brain functioning yet? |
| 0:09.0 | Not really. My brain is not functioning very well because of my waking up in the middle of the night and |
| 0:15.3 | starting to catastrophize. So I'm very tired this morning. So welcome to Art Juice. This is honest, generous and humorous conversations that will feed your creative soul and get you thinking with me Alice Sheridan |
| 0:35.8 | and me Louise Fletcher and we are recording this on the second of April so if anybody listening in the future we are still in UK |
| 0:46.8 | Corona lockdown week, week whatever Yeah, just week two. |
| 0:53.0 | We feel like week 22, but it's actually week two. |
| 0:56.0 | Where every week feels like a month and every day feels like a week. |
| 1:01.0 | And yet, somehow it's Thursday and I don't know how we got to the end of the week because in my head it's still Monday and I haven't done any of the things that I felt that I wanted to do this week. So weird time walk. |
| 1:12.0 | Yeah. So we're going to talk today about the different ways that, well |
| 1:18.1 | we've called it artist respond but actually I think it's I think it's also just how we as humans are responding |
| 1:26.0 | we've got a couple of people that we could reach out to and have conversations with |
| 1:30.7 | about that in future weeks that might be nice. |
| 1:33.2 | Just throw that in there. We haven't discussed that before. |
| 1:36.0 | Okay. |
| 1:37.0 | There we go. |
| 1:38.0 | But that again... |
| 1:41.0 | How easy going I am everyone. Oh dear. So yes this is going to be a different way that |
| 1:48.0 | artists respond but also that we as humans are responding the kind of of, you know, the ups and downs of everything, it's quite hard at the moment to tread a line, I think, between trying to operate as normal, because that's what keeps us vaguely sane and vaguely healthy and also wanting to have this massive reaction to this bizarre, unusual situation that we all find ourselves in. |
| 2:19.2 | And looking at it from the outside of it it's fascinating if you if you were somebody who |
| 2:28.6 | studied any of this it is absolutely fascinating and to be in the middle of it feeling all those ups and downs and reactions. |
| 2:39.0 | The one thing I'm trying to do is notice them in myself kind of from the outside does that make sense? |
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