21 episodes

Subject, Object, Verb is the sonic counterpart to ArtReview magazine, one of the world’s leading publications on contemporary art. The show explores the connections between artist, art and life – or, in the show’s own lexicon: subject, object and verb. Musician, artist and writer Ross Simonini engages with artists and thinkers of all varieties, including but not limited to painters, fashion designers, filmmakers, novelists, sculptors, poets, composers, sound artists, curators, and philosophers. The show features a collage of formats, from interviews to field recordings to mixtapes to sound commissions, while always encouraging an attention to the many ways in which art can arrive at the ears.

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    • 4.8 • 20 Ratings

Subject, Object, Verb is the sonic counterpart to ArtReview magazine, one of the world’s leading publications on contemporary art. The show explores the connections between artist, art and life – or, in the show’s own lexicon: subject, object and verb. Musician, artist and writer Ross Simonini engages with artists and thinkers of all varieties, including but not limited to painters, fashion designers, filmmakers, novelists, sculptors, poets, composers, sound artists, curators, and philosophers. The show features a collage of formats, from interviews to field recordings to mixtapes to sound commissions, while always encouraging an attention to the many ways in which art can arrive at the ears.

    Paul McCarthy’s Life in Music

    Paul McCarthy’s Life in Music

    Paul McCarthy is a legendary performance artist, painter and filmmaker. He is less known for his work as a musician, though he has been active as an improvising sound artist since his days in music school. Today, he continues to play with his band, Extended Organ (formed with Mike Kelley) and to edit the sound in his films with the sensibility of noise and collage. In this episode, McCarthy describes his life in music, his early influences, and his mysterious interactions with a man who may have been the chess prodigy, Bobby Fischer.

    Featured image
    Paul McCarthy, Whipping a Wall and a Window with Paint, 1974, performance, video, b/w photographs. © Paul McCarthy. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth; photo: Al Payne

    Host
    Ross Simonini

    Credits
    Produced by ArtReview and Ross Simonini

    • 33 min
    Matt Marble on Arthur Russell’s Pop Music of the Future

    Matt Marble on Arthur Russell’s Pop Music of the Future

    This episode is a conversation with the writer, Matt Marble on the composer Arthur Russell, who was active in the ‘70s and ‘80s music scene in New York. Marble’s book Buddhist Bubblegum is a study of Russell’s life and music, which spanned many styles and invoked esoteric practices such as Tantra and Shingon Buddhism. On the podcast, Marble discusses Russell’s philosophical perspectives on such divergent topics as non-dualism and disco music, and how Russell worked with his Buddhist teacher to create what he believed would be the pop music of the future.

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    Photo: Tom Lee; courtesy Audika Records

    Host
    Ross Simonini

    Credits
    Produced by ArtReview and Ross Simonini

    • 35 min
    Podcast: Joanne Robertson on Improvisation

    Podcast: Joanne Robertson on Improvisation

    This episode features the musician and painter, Joanne Robertson whose work is born from improvisation. She regularly collaborates with other artists, such as Dean Blunt and Sidsel Meineche Hansen, who plays a vacuum on Joanne’s most recent release. We discuss her ideas on music, art and life, all while she nurses her newborn baby.

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    Photo courtesy Bruna Amaral

    Host
    Ross Simonini

    Credits
    Produced by ArtReview and Ross Simonini

    • 23 min
    Deniz Gul and Nour Mobarak: the Sound of Language

    Deniz Gul and Nour Mobarak: the Sound of Language

    This episode features two multimedia artists, Deniz Gul and Nour Mobarak, who both work with sculpture, music, language and ideas. Mobarak discusses her new work, Dafne Phono, an audio-based adaptation of the first known opera, translated into the most morphophonologically complex languages in the world. Gul presents an essay from her most recent book, an excerpt on the subject of somatic philosopher Moshé Feldenkrais, along with an exercise for listeners to try at home. 

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    Theodoor van Thulden, Apollo and Daphne, 1636-38. Public domain.

    Host
    Ross Simonini

    Credits
    Produced by ArtReview and Ross Simonini

    • 45 min
    Hunter Hunt-Hendrix’s Transcendental Metal Opera

    Hunter Hunt-Hendrix’s Transcendental Metal Opera

    Hunter Ravenna Hunt-Hendrix is the leading creative force in the highly eclectic band, Liturgy. She also makes sculpture and has created her own philosophical system called Transcendental Qabala, which informs much of her work. In this episode, we discuss her opera, Origin of the Alimonies, which she considers a total work of art, involving film, spiritual gnosis, and a gender-affirming transition.





    Host
    Ross Simonini





    Credits
    Produced by ArtReview and Ross Simonini
    Image courtesy: Hunter Hunt-Hendrix

    • 36 min
    Mochu – Narrating Art, Deep Time and Freeports

    Mochu – Narrating Art, Deep Time and Freeports

    Mochu is an artist who creates narrative technofictions in his films, writings and lectures. In this episode, he presents an audio adaptation of his new book, Nervous Fossils: Syndromes of the Synthetic Nether, which discusses fossils, synthetic colour production, and time-traveling syndromes. The episode takes place in an art freeport and drifts between essay, fiction and mythology. It's a wild philosophical ride into deep time.

    Host
    Ross Simonini

    Credits
    Produced by ArtReview and Ross Simonini
    Image courtesy: Adityan Melekalam + Mochu
    Audioscape: Suvani Suri
    Sound Recording: Abhishek Mathur @ Quarter Note Studios

    • 29 min

Customer Reviews

4.8 out of 5
20 Ratings

20 Ratings

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Product arrived fresh and tasty. Takes some getting used to the consistency, but overall a solid experience. Thanks to Ross Simonini for being a helpful and attentive host!

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