The Impossible Aesthetics of Giving a Shit.

About this episode

The episode explores the intersection of art, politics, and performance in a chaotic environment.

Recorded inside an echoing Tin Sheds Gallery at Sydney University while tradies lay floorboards in the next room and reality starts to warp. Teenage dancers take down the monarchy. A Rolex gets scratched into a manifesto. Hornsleth buys a village with livestock. The line between satire and sincerity dissolves. Silence becomes violent. Cringe becomes sacred. Art school gets roasted. Silence is political. John Cage was 15 once. This is a lecture . There’s a theory for everything. It’s a soft revolution with scaffolding still up. DB10 Instagram

People in this episode

Hosts: Melletios Kyriakidis, Tim Gregory

Topics covered

• art
• satire
• politics
• performance
• revolution
• aesthetics

Keywords

• aesthetics
• satire
• art school
• political silence
• revolution
• manifesto
• teenage dancers

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Tin Sheds Gallery

Places: Sydney University

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