Episode 132: Art Is an Alien Technology: Live at the Supernormal Festival

Weird Studies

Phil Ford and J. F. Martel

Society & Culture, Arts, Philosophy

4.8 • 688 Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2022

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

With his 2010 film Cave of Forgotten Dreams, the German filmmaker Werner Herzog peeled away the veneer of familiarity on the Chauvet cave paintings, restoring them to their original eldritch sparkle. In this conversation, Phil and JF discuss a cinematic jewel that was wrought under tremendous pressure – and is all the more dazzling for it. The episode was recorded live at the Supernormal Festival in Oxfordshire, England, where your hosts were also subjected to unexpected pressure as the band Plastics started their set at the same time as the talk! Though we feel the musical accompaniment adds depth to the dialogue, listeners who find it distracting can skip to the end of the Plastics' set around 41:30. All listeners are urged to visit the band's Bandcamp page to sample some choice hardcore. Weird Studies thanks Strange Attractor Press, the Supernormal Festival , and Plastics. JF Martel gratefully acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts in making this live recording possible. Header image via Wikimedia Commons. Listen to volume 1 and volume 2 of the Weird Studies soundtrack by Pierre-Yves Martel Support us on Patreon Find us on Discord Get the new T-shirt design from Cotton Bureau! Get your Weird Studies merchandise (t-shirts, coffee mugs, etc.) Visit the Weird Studies Bookshop SHOW NOTES Werner Herzog, “The Minnesota Declaration” Tom Waits, “Step Right Up” Herman Melville, Moby Dick Weird Studies, Episode 76 on “Hellier” Stanley Kubrick (dir.), 2001: A Space Odyssey Paul Bahn, Images of the Ice Age Weird Studies, Episode 101 on “In Praise of Shadows Weird Studies, Episode 129 on “The Fall of the House of Usher” Matthew Barney, The Cremaster Films Stanley Kubrick, The Shining Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Spectrevision Radio
0:03.3	Welcome to Weird Studies, an arts and philosophy podcast with hosts Phil Ford and J.F. Martel.
0:20.8	For more episodes or to support the podcast,
0:23.3	go to weirdstudies.com. You start. You start. No, JF, I insist.
0:58.8	This weird, the one time that we've actually done a certain amount of preparation,
1:01.1	we're stiff as hell.
1:05.4	I think it's the fact that we know we won't have an intro, that this is the intro for this episode.
1:05.9	Yeah, it's true.
1:06.4	And I usually take comfort.
1:08.0	It gives me a lot of courage, knowing that in post, one of us will come in and frame whatever
1:13.7	it is we're saying.
1:14.6	So we can kind of just start anywhere.
1:16.4	Yes.
1:17.1	So as we've mentioned in the last couple of episodes, this summer we went to the UK and
1:22.2	we attended a conference called Diverse Intelligence's Conference in Scotland.
1:28.3	And then we went... Diverse Intelligence's Summer Institute. Oh, sorry, Summer Institute. And then we went down to
1:34.9	Oxfordshire to participate in an experimental arts festival called Supernormal. What we're
1:41.1	presenting to you today is the recording of our conversation there, which went
1:46.1	splendidly, I think.
1:47.8	I'm very, very happy with it.
1:49.9	Yeah, me too.
1:50.5	Yeah, the crowd was amazing.
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