The Secret Ingredient

Musagetes

This show is an ongoing discussion of art and ideas. We talk about the invisible elements of art that make it powerful and relevant: how artwork connects many publics, inspires cooperation and collaboration, and is created through conversation. We talk about new views on local, national, and international art where it intersects with the social. How can we add new voices to the conversation about art? What makes art useful today and how do we, as individuals, find meaning in it? Co-hosted from February 2013 – June 2015 by Musagetes’ Curator Alissa Firth-Eagland and Program Coordinator Danica Evering (and with artist Paul Chartrand Febr...

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The Secret Ingredient

Episodes (57)

Sep 25, 2015 Jacob Wren: Critical Optimism and the Never Ending Struggle (The Secret Ingredient - 17/06/15)
Sep 25, 2015 Pablo Helguera: Art in Dialogue (The Secret Ingredient - 24/06/15)
Sep 24, 2015 Feminism and Aesthetics: Steph Yates on Music and Art (The Secret Ingredient - 03/06/15)

The Secret Ingredient

Sep 25, 2015
55 minutes
50 MB

What possibilities for political transformation can be opened up through imagination, fantasy, and art? Can the left create instrumental change or is the game rigged? This week artist and writer Jacob Wren considers these questions, as well as ideas about the artist as political activist and the balance between egoism and conciliation in collaborative projects. “Sometimes I think that the secret ingredient in art is art. Another thing that has come to the forefront of my mind over the years is how little room for art there is in art; how much of the structural and institutional ways of thinking in...

The Secret Ingredient

Jacob Wren: Critical Optimism and the Never Ending Struggle (The Secret Ingredient - 17/06/15)

Musagetes

00:00 -54:47