Episode 15: Boredom, Anxiety, and Being an Artist

Kunning posits that the function of art is to give yourself a different kind of life-style. He says it’s a way of spending time that is not very “cost effective” - You are not thinking about how one can make money. But I then ask him: What are they getting, knowledge? He says no, novelty. But how does novelty, I ask, distinguish itself from distraction?  Kunning says that art is just the way we deal with excessive time and boredom. But we can’t just kill time. That’s not, Kunning feels, acceptable in our world anymore. Support the showWebsite: talkpopc.orgInstagram: @talkpopcEmail: [email protected]