6:59PM (Binging Amitha and Will’s podcast)

Barbara Kasten
“What happened was, I took this class in photography and of course I married the photography instructor. Doesn’t everyone marry the instructor?”

“I had to wait for you all to be born to see the way that I see.”

Nari Ward
When he was a kid, he tried to copy the image of Santa Claus in the classroom. (Am I remembering this right, Santa?) A little kid said, “Oh, the new kid’s an artist!” And the label felt special, and it stuck. All the kids ran over to look.

“It’s about making the work sing visually and be impactful… an emotional magnet to stick ideas and experiences to. But the more I talk about it, the more I demagnetize it.”

Phyllida Barlow
“What if it’s a kind of invited guest, a kind of parasite to something that is completely incongruous?” (On works she put in public space without permission)

On the stigma against intuition
“Artists who work like that, who are in a way led by not having a pre-thought-out process. . . The process itself is unpredictable and relies a lot on the work beginning to lead, for me, beginning to lead me. So it is a collaboration between me and the process. That’s the sort of ideal. I think looking at that, there can seem to be a lack of intellectual clout . . . as if one’s a dumb idiot just splashing around in a load of soggy materials . . . so I think therefore that the critique around that work is very unformed. Art that starts from a very confident place of not knowing exposes itself to a seeming lack of intellectual grasp. I don’t think so.”