So excited to have Samir Rana on the podcast today! We cover the struggle of defining an artistic practice, the problems associated with validating one’s art practice through the exhibition of work, our strange and unnecessary obsession with competition and rankings, when ritual moves beyond physicality to the true core of it, the value of the aesthetic experience, the greediness of our need to explain everything, the terrifying idea of deliberately creating meaningless things, and we get real existential with the question of whether you’d like to be yourself, or just BE (and WHAT THAT EVEN MEANS). And like...that’s not even all. This is a real meaty one, guys. Buckle up.
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