An Opera Singer and a Comedian Walk Into a Bar features opera-singer-turned-experimental-performer Ema Katrovas, talking to comedian-and-TV-writer-turned-novelist Nicholas Anthony. They have conversations from across the high/low art divide with the goal of being honest about what a life centring art – high or low – actually looks like.
Nick and Ema recorded this episode directly after attending a talk by William Deresiewitz, author of Death of the Artist: How Creatives Struggle in the Age of Billionaires and Big Tech.
Links to stuff we talk about:
- William Dereseiwitz – The Death of the Artist: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250125514/thedeathoftheartist
- Network effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect
- Tangerine (movie shot on iPhones): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangerine_(film)
- Nebula (creator-led alternative to YouTube): https://nebula.tv/
- The installation Ema worked on for the Muzeum of Literature in Prague was called Abaceda. There is no link – you would have to go to the Muzeum of Literature of Prague: https://www.muzeumliteratury.cz/en/
- OpenSea: https://opensea.io/
- The American royalties-collecting institution: https://www.ascap.com/