About the purpose of art, Olivia Laing’s “Funny Weather”, justifying black squares to IT people, elitism in the art world, handprint art, Kurzgesagt’s “The Past We Can Never Return To”, the Lascaux cave paintings, art as necessity, art as self–expression, R.G. Collingwood’s “art proper”, abstraction & universality, Mark Rothko’s essence of a square, understanding the artist’s intentions, Charles Manson’s “The Love and Terror Cult”, finding a lost piece of your soul, the insufficiency of language, and art’s ability to bring people together.

Maja Malmcrona (@majamalmcrona) is an artist from Sweden. Emma Eglinton (@emmasyogalab) is a British/American yoga teacher. They both live in Zürich, Switzerland.

Recorded in Zürich on July 10, 2021.

http://majamalmcrona.com

https://www.emmasyoga.ch/

Olivia Laing’s “Funny Weather”: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/mar/30/funny-weather-art-in-an-emergency-olivia-laing-review