The Conversation Art Podcast

Epis.329: Ben Davis on the Ordinary World Record Egg, what to do when Apple co-opts your artwork, and where high art meets immersive art


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In part 2 with ArtNet News critic Ben Davis, we talk about: environmentalism and our approach to the climate, as well his emphasis on finding a good middle ground between overly dire and overly sugar-coated perspectives on the conversation; Christian Marclay's video works "Telephone" – which Apple co-opted, making their own version when Marclay wouldn't sell it to them – and "The Clock," which Ben considers to be Marclay's response to Apple and its iPhone, and images' 'place-lessness' (which "The Clock" returns to us); how he frames the immersive art trend as a question of 'what's at stake here?,' and how there are many trends that he feels needs to be seen from both sides; Alfredo Jaar's immersive video in the most recent Whitney Biennial, prompted by the very short time window artists now have to gain viewers' attention; the case of the lovably ordinary @world_record_egg, an Instagram feed that both parodied and addressed concerns about the effects of social media on our individual psyches as an artistic provocation; and Ben's own tricky relationship with social media (IG).

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