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About Norberto: Born + raised in Miami by Cuban immigrants, Norberto Rodriguez began his career at 18 as a multi-disciplinary conceptual artist known for his continuously disruptive + innovative practice. He works in all media + genre including installation, performance, photography, sculpture, digital, music, film, text + tenderness. Currently, Rodriguez is developing A SCHOOL OF THOUGHT: a center for exploring how ideas give life meaning, IP DIVISION: A company providing creative solutions + services to consumers everywhere, + The Waiting Room: an experimental, collaborative space for private reflection + public exchange. He also shares his journey documenting various other projects + his ongoing evolution as an artist + friend on social media @norbertoinc.
Topics Discussed In This Episode:
- Using commercial platforms to your advantage as an artist
- Alternative ideas to bypass and subvert the traditional art gallery model
- Slash from Guns and Roses making an appearance on the episode
- Exploring deep philosophical ideas about the ramifications of the art market
- Questioning your legacy as an artist
- “The pre-career retrospective”
- Steve Jobs and Apple
- When Bert got married to a stranger for a year
- The Bert Rodriguez Museum
- When he killed Bert Rodriguez
- Pitfalls of galleries
- Artists as a commodity
- Art evolving culture
- Kanye West
- The sale of his will
- Shamans
- Alejandro Jodorowsky