Yoshino is a multi-hyphenate artist and the host of Artist Decoded.

Yoshino’s short story “The Inner Symphony” can be read at Yoshino’s Diary on Substack.

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Christine Kuan is President & Executive Director of Creative Capital, a nonprofit grantmaking organization funding artists creating experimental and groundbreaking new work in the visual arts, performing arts, film, technology, literature, socially engaged, and multidisciplinary forms. Before joining Creative Capital, Kuan was CEO & Director of Sotheby’s Institute of Art, and held roles as Chief Curator & Director of Strategic Partnerships at Artsy, Chief Curatorial Officer & VP for External Affairs at Artstor, and Editor-in-Chief of Oxford Art Online/Grove Art Online at Oxford University Press. She has also worked at The Metropolitan Museum of Art and taught at the University of Iowa, Peking University, Rutgers University, and Stanford University Arts Leadership program. Kuan holds an MFA in Creative Writing Poetry from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop and a BA in Art History and English Literature from Rutgers University.

Topics Discussed In This Episode:

• Intuition (0:09:49)
• How Creative Capital fosters the careers of multi-disciplinary artists (00:13:43)
• How Creative Capital supports diversity and equality within the arts (00:16:30)
• How Creative Capital is often the first organization to fund artists (00:21:18)
• The “Wild Futures” grant cycle (00:22:23)
• Jordan Weber’s “4 MX” project (00:25:11)
• Early funded projects including Lynn Hershman Leeson‘s “Women Art Revolution” (00:28:08)
• Christine encourages people to pursue a career in the arts (00:33:24)
• Creating harmony between the arts and institutions (00:36:18)
• Focusing our attention towards quality time and experiences (00:40:11)
• How artists are selected by Creative Capital (00:48:36)
• Christine’s advice for artists and creatives (00:58:04)

Books Referenced:

• “Deep Work” by Cal Newport
• “The Kybalion” by The Three Initiates

People Mentioned:

• James Baldwin
• Angela Merkel
• Spike Lee
• Jibz Cameron
• Titus Kaphar
• Cassils
• Jordan Weber
• Jesse Krimes
• Lynn Hershman Leeson
• Samora Pinderhughes
• Simone Leigh
• Lorraine O'Grady

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Mitch Horowitz is a historian of alternative spirituality and one of today’s most literate voices of esoterica, mysticism, and the occult. He is the PEN Award-winning author of books including Occult America, One Simple Idea, The Miracle Club, Daydream Believer, Uncertain Places, and the forthcoming Modern Occultism. Mitch hosted, co-wrote, and produced a feature documentary about the occult classic The Kybalion directed by Emmy-nominee Ronni Thomas and shot on location in Egypt. The movie premiered as the #3 documentary on iTunes. Mitch plays a newscaster in the forthcoming Paramount feature thriller My Animal directed by Jacqueline Castel, an official selection of the 2023 Sundance Film Festival. Mitch’s books have been translated into French, Arabic, Chinese, Italian, Spanish, Korean, and Portuguese. His work is censored in China.

Topics Discussed In This Episode:

• Mitch’s currently unreleased book, “Modern Occultism” (00:04:33)
• Mitch’s concept, “The Ten Day Miracle Challenge” (00:07:00)
• Having an obsessive intellect (00:09:53)
• Nurturing one’s intrinsic nature (00:11:19)
• Positive lessons Mitch learned while working in publishing (00:13:41)
• Learning from suffering (00:17:17)
• Emotions informing memories (00:20:31)
• Anton Lavey’s teachings (00:24:03)
• Truth comes in the form of a lie - G. I. Gurdjieff (00:26:34)
• Finding one’s personal truth (00:31:49)
• The films of Ruben Östlund (00:35:19)
• “The Wish Machine” in Andrei Tarkovsky‘s film Stalker (00:38:39)
• The effects of technological information overload and Anton Lavey’s “The Augmentive Principle” (00:42:32)
• Fear and a wish being one and the same (00:47:27)
• Building character through difficult situations (00:54:23)
• Mitch’s fascination with the work of G. I. Gurdjieff (00:57:09)
• Separating the art from the artist (00:59:42)
• Limiting judgments against others (01:06:38)

Books Referenced:

• Station Eleven (Emily St. John Mandel)
• Think and Grow Rich (Napoleon Hill)
• The Third Mind (Brion Gysin and William S. Burroughs)

Films / TV Shows Referenced:

• The Square
• Force Majore
• Stalker
• Anti-Christ
• The Last Ship
• The Last of Us
• Alone

People Mentioned:

• Jacqueline Castel
• Carlos Castaneda
• Jack Parsons
• Brion Gysin
• William S. Burroughs
• G. I. Gurdjieff
• Vernon Howard
• Ruben Östlund
• Andrei Tarkovsky
• Anton Lavey
• Emily St. John Mandel
• Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Napolean Hill
• Grant Morrison
• Alan Moore

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