Art's Properties
TRES MALL
Derek Larson
You’re sitting on the subway, tired, avoiding people’s gaze. A soft, glowing light falls on your knee. You look up and it’s a gilded 1900’s chandelier with glasses. It’s Boris Groys, telling you about his latest book, Russian Cosmism, a collection of essays by radical biopolitical utopian Russian artists and thinkers of the early 20th century. The Boris Groys chandelier asks you, what happens when artists want to be liked, not just by their friends but by everybody? What happens when artists count likes and shares, monitor comments?
Follow Jon’s meandering walk around New York as he explores these questions and chats with a canine David Joselit, a statuesque Carlos Oliva Mendoza and a cartoonish Jim Jinkins. By the end of his conversational adventures, there is no space or time left to be melancholy––there is too much to think about.