Maja Malmcrona

Creativity, nature, Switzerland, (faking) normality, being alone, freelancing, empathy, ignoring the news, the Ukraine War, spreading positivity, charitable giving, aggressive marketing and fear-mongering, bullying, indifference and coping mechanisms, caring as weakness, Simon & Garfunkel, art marking moments in time, Sarah Sze, Rorschach tests, and boob drawings. 

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 April 22, 2022.

Maja Malmcronahttp://majamalmcrona.comhttp://instagram.com/majamalmcrona 

Emma Eglintonhttps://www.emmasyoga.chhttps://www.instagram.com/emmasyogalab 

ReferencesSarah Sze - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEjegKJwI0M

Books, philosophy, self-help, Donald Robertson’s How to Think Like a Roman Emperor, stoicism, Marcus Aurelius, Austin Kleon’s Steal Like an Artist, catastrophic thinking, Marina Abramovic’s Walk Through Walls, fiction versus non-fiction, truth, J.R.R Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, Letters of Note (@lettersofnote), storytelling, life cycles, Chef’s Table’s Alex Atala, Denis Villeneuve’s Arrival, time, and rebirth. 

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

Recorded in Zürich on March 11, 2022.

Maja Malmcronahttp://majamalmcrona.comhttp://instagram.com/majamalmcrona 

Emma Eglintonhttps://www.emmasyoga.chhttps://www.instagram.com/emmasyogalab 

Referenceshttps://instagram.com/lettersofnote

Boredom, creativity, granting one’s mind room to wander, rainy train rides, airplane WiFi, productivity, phone addiction, sensory deprivation tanks, increasing one’s awareness, the city at night, party music in department stores, marathon running, mediation (and hysterical crying), being who we think we are, understanding our purpose, group behaviour, and being a mere monkey in a group (...of monkeys). 

Julia Chatain (@thediverter_) is a doctoral student in Computer Science at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. She is fascinated by the role of concreteness in mathematics education and, in particular, she explores how our bodies can help develop intuition about abstract concepts.

Recorded in Zürich on March 20, 2022.

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Beauty, the aesthetic experience, politics and art schools, street performance, presence, suspending one’s disbelief, religious experiences, supernaturalism, becoming one with one’s environment, psychedelics, Carl Jung, LSD and the famous bike ride, psychology, mental states, consciousness, meditation and hypnosis, Johns Hopkins University’s psilocybin experiments, changing one’s personality, addiction treatment, Wassily Kandinsky’s ‘Concerning the Spiritual in Art’, abstraction and non-objectivism, art, morality, truth and equilibrium, Nazi architecture, music and collective experiences, brainwave synchronisation, jazz solos, the policing of mental states, Ken Kesey’s ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest’, microdosing, and curiosity.

Maja Malmcrona (@majamalmcrona) is a Switzerland-based contemporary artist from Sweden. Frederik Bredgaard is a Denmark-based consultant with a psychology degree from the University of Copenhagen.

Recorded on March 17, 2022.

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Artistic influences, Sarah Sze’s multimedia sculptures, how objects mark time, fragmentation, the beginning and end of art, threshold and hierarchy, the lost art of painting, moving through scales, John Singer Sargent’s portraits, realism and expression, the element of time, Richard Serra’s monumental sculptures, disrupting the architecture, Hal Foster’s ‘Conversations about Sculpture’, George Kubler’s ‘The Shape of Time’ (or whatever the fuck it’s called), replication versus prime objects, 19th century literature, Henry James’s ‘The Turn of the Screw’, ghost stories and difficult prose, modernism, Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s ‘The Brother’s Karamazov’, pessimism, and comedy.

Maja Malmcrona (@majamalmcrona) is an artist from Sweden. Adam Nicholson is a PhD candidate in Philosophy at the University of Glasgow (United Kingdom).

Recorded on March 11, 2022.

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Artistic influences, Sarah Sze’s multimedia sculptures, how objects mark time, fragmentation, the beginning and end of art, threshold and hierarchy, the lost art of painting, moving through scales, John Singer Sargent’s portraits, realism and expression, the element of time, Richard Serra’s monumental sculptures, disrupting the architecture, Hal Foster’s ‘Conversations about Sculpture’, George Kubler’s ‘The Shape of Time’ (or whatever the fuck it’s called), replication versus prime objects, 19th century literature, Henry James’s ‘The Turn of the Screw’, ghost stories and difficult prose, modernism, Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s ‘The Brother’s Karamazov’, pessimism, and comedy.

Maja Malmcrona (@majamalmcrona) is an artist from Sweden. Adam Nicholson is a PhD candidate in Philosophy at the University of Glasgow (United Kingdom). Recorded on March 11, 2022.

http://majamalmcrona.comhttp://instagram.com/majamalmcrona

https://twitter.com/G_JuliusGeezerhttps://publickopinions.wordpress.com/

Books, reading, Socrates, memory, Plato’s Dialogues, Gilbert Ryle’s ‘The Concept of Mind’, different ways of thinking, hyper-intelligent debates, Twitter and technology, quantum biology, knowledge as power, self-development, wisdom and humility, Dostoyevsky, airport thrillers and heroin, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, controlled adversity, triple-deckers, Werner Herzog, J. A. Baker’s ‘The Peregrine’, imagination and creativity, science fiction, Stanisław Lem’s 'Solaris', Christopher Priest’s 'The Prestige', physics, art, storytelling, and our monkey brains. 

Maja Malmcrona (@majamalmcrona) is an artist from Sweden. Adam Nicholson is a PhD candidate in Philosophy at the University of Glasgow (United Kingdom). Recorded on February 21, 2022.

http://majamalmcrona.comhttp://instagram.com/majamalmcrona

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About the spring, new beginnings, the state of the world (and the Russian-Ukrainian War), imposing one’s reality upon others, Putin drinking tea, Ernest Becker’s ‘The Denial of Death’, leaving a mark, appreciating the small moments, being non-productive, forest revelations, adopting multiple identities, nostalgia, connecting the dots of one’s past, eliminating choices, habits, spreading oneself thin, anxiety, the art of figuring it out, self-directed studying, alternative nostril breathing, and science (bitches!).

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

Recorded in Zürich on March 11, 2022.

http://majamalmcrona.comhttp://instagram.com/majamalmcrona 

https://www.emmasyoga.chhttps://www.instagram.com/emmasyogalab

About habits, perfectionism, motivation, James Clear’s ‘Atomic Habits’, dopamine detoxing, boredom, brushing your teeth, the Metaverse, productive procrastination, Duolingo and the angry bird, mindfulness, introversion, productivity, Yuval Noah Harari and Jack Dorsey, technology addiction, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, transcendental meditation, moving one’s consciousness, alcoholism, freelancing, discipline, habit stacking, and space cleansing. 

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

Recorded in Zürich on February 11, 2022.

http://majamalmcrona.comhttp://instagram.com/majamalmcrona 

https://www.emmasyoga.chhttps://www.instagram.com/emmasyogalab

Art and its purpose, Jens Haaning’s ‘Take the Money and Run’ (2021), ethics, theft and controversy, irrelevant debates, Marco Evaristti’s ‘Helena’ (2000), imaginary dichotomies, truth and illusion, the art market, Banksy’s shredded ‘Love is in the Bin’ (2018), art for the sake of money, boxing personas and Conor McGregor, creating a niche versus restricting yourself, consistency and contradiction, cognitive dissonance, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (and BJJ Globetrotters), music, expectations, finding a common denominator, psychology, the dichotomy of trait and state, incorrect interpretations, literature and Roland Barthes ‘Death of the Author’, definitions and specificity, what art should not do, usefulness and expectations, challenging the status quo, the role of beauty, and the art of confusion. 

Maja Malmcrona (@majamalmcrona) is a Switzerland-based contemporary artist from Sweden. Frederik Bredgaard is a Denmark-based consultant with a psychology degree from the University of Copenhagen.

Recorded on February 3, 2022.

http://majamalmcrona.comhttp://instagram.com/majamalmcrona