Art is Dead, Long Live Art: eschatology and the death drive
About this episode
The episode explores the intersection of art and eschatology, discussing the implications of creating art in a world facing potential end times.
In this episode we talk about making art in the end times. Whathappens when the end doesn’t come? Melletios runs around naked, Tim takes drugs to dull the pain, and Malevich is stuck painting squares, forever. We discuss eschatology and the death drive as opposing forces in art making that tries to deal with the death of art (and everything else). We throw in dead supervisors, Heaven’s Gate cult, Lars Von Tres’ Melancholia and a sad triangle. Can art reclaim a power at the end that isn’t sublimated to fascist aesthetics, or the cold post-conceptualism of “smoothing the pillow” of capitalism? Oh and zombiesreturn, because, well, they are zombies.
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