Michael Stipe

Talk Art

Russell Tovey and Robert Diament c/o Independent Talent

Sculpture, Unknown, Russell Tovey, Painting, Drawing, Art, Artist Interview, Arts, Studio Visit, Visual Arts, Art Talk, Contemporary Art, Entertainment, Celebrity, Modern Art, Artwork, Talk Art, Robert Diament

4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2019

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

Robert & Russell meet music icon Michael Stipe, best known as lead singer of R.E.M. We discuss his lifelong love of taking photographs (more than 37,000 so far), his childhood Nikon camera (a gift from his father), self-portraits, making sculptures, his friendship with Patti Smith, meeting members of the Beat Generation such as Allen Ginsberg & William Burroughs and why he dislikes his own handwriting. We explore his recent collaboration with Sam Taylor-Johnson on the video for his new solo single ‘Your Capricious Soul’ (which is also raising funds for charity Extinction Rebellion), his admiration for artist/poet John Giorno, British poet Edith Sitwell, photographers Robert Mapplethorpe and Wolfgang Tillmans, sculptors Bernini and Brancusi, meeting Andy Warhol (and buying one of Warhol’s Polaroid cameras), a moving story related to the play Angels in America, why German artist Hans Haacke is one of his greatest heroes and the last impact of his early Athens relationship with artist Jeremy Ayres.

Michael’s new book of photography ‘Our Interference Times: A Visual Record’ is available now. We also recommend his earlier book ‘Volume 1’ (both published by Damiani, 2019 & 2018). His first solo single ‘Your Capricious Soul’ can be downloaded as a bundle with video and artwork exclusively from MichaelStipe.com and you can follow his former band (and the 25th anniversary of their album Monster) on Instagram @rem

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0:57.0	Good afternoon, good morning, good evening, wherever you are in the world I am
1:05.4	Russell Tovey and I'm Robert Diemann and this is talk up welcome to talk
1:09.6	are you Rob I'm in a really reminiscent mood. Why's that? Well, the word that's been stuck in my head for the last week is memorable.
1:18.4	And that is because I was just at Fiac in Paris and I was
1:22.8	That's an art fair for people that don't know that and because it was like a big
1:27.1	art thing there were obviously a lot of people that loved art there and they kept walking
1:30.4	up to me the whole time saying oh my god you're the guy from the
1:33.0	podcast I love your podcast in many different accents so we had people from
1:36.4	like South Korea were they putting them on or were they no babes they were
1:39.3	they from different countries so there were people from like I met an Icelandic person I met
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