Big thanks to Stephen Sacco for interviewing me about Nervosities on Plague Remedy!
An excerpt:
“Art is breath. Art is food. Art is life. Art is love. Art is us. It’s us! Art needs no justification. I see artists constantly apologizing for making art. Imagine a farmer saying, ‘Oh I’m so sorry for having tilled this wheat.’ ‘I’ve made this amazing meal for you,’ the chef says, ‘but I shouldn’t have made it.’ Art is necessary. Artists are just as necessary as doctors. So make art, no matter what!”
Tune in to also hear me talk about fearlessly leaping into the unknown; artful experimentation as a continuum; “nowness not merely as newness but as vitality”; on imagining and realizing not only another world but a better one; on shared power as the only legitimate form of power; impermanence, egolessness, and “aimlessness”; the fertility and generativity of exile and diaspora; on acting against the “tyranny of shoulds and should nots”; on the necessity of conscientiously doing nothing; and more besides!
Big thanks, too, to Christian Livermore, the producer of the show!
Listen to the rest of the interview HERE!
JOHN MADERA—Writer, Editor, Publisher 