Episode 7. Anthony Schrag — The Questions Nobody Wants to Ask
Ep.7. Anthony Schrag — The Questions Nobody Wants to Ask
He's spent his career asking the questions nobody in the room wants to ask — including the tension between artist-as-social-worker and artist-as-social-wanker, which you should read if you haven't, and not in a meeting, because you will laugh out loud.
He now leads the MA in Participatory Arts at Queen Margaret University — Scotland's only dedicated postgraduate programme in the field (this is also where we will be sharing this research: with these MA students). So he's made the move many independent practitioners wonder about: from freelance practice into institutional life. And he's doing it while still holding a critical, trickster relationship with the institution from the inside.
What does that look like day to day? What gets easier? What gets lost? What do you have to keep smuggling in?
This is the conversation.
Ps.
I also asked the interviewees for a game if they wanted to share one and here is Ants:
Sock-put
To throw your socks as far as possible. (Inspired by David Sherry’s “Throw Your Shopping In The Air”)
Rules: Take your socks off (if you were wearing any. If you weren’t, go find someone who will let you steal their socks), and throw it as far as possible. You can compete against yourself, or with others. Consider if you want to add elements such as ‘aesthetics’ or ‘form’ to the competitive element of distance.