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“I was working on site, transcribing and arranging these aphoristic notes I had compiled in the memo app on my iPhone, and as I wrote everything out I started hearing this voice in my head saying, ‘There’s no way this could ever be realized.’ I went back and forth with myself about it. Then at the end I thought: ‘Capitalism right now . . . needs to change!'”

THE ANTI-SOCIALLY ENGAGED ARTIST By Andrew Maerkle
— “There’s a secret smoking room behind the video installation of me singing karaoke as Joseph Beuys, Artistic Dandy (2018), so I could hear the song as I smoked. I mean, probably no serious artist anywhere else in the world would make a work like that. But the work is not an arrogant critique of the socially-engaged artists epitomized by Beuys. It’s more an expression of my doubt that they would ever let me join their club.”