Brendan Hunt
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297 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Mar 2026
last heard 4 May
Brendan Hunt’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And somehow in our eagerness to have both the sacred feeling that we have around
super expressive art that overwhelms us with its impressiveness we want to honor those people and think of them as massively original and separate from the the conversation but actually they got there the same way they fooled around they listened they cobbled things together and you know certainly this is more obvious sometimes in other art mediums you know no one
is surprised that the way, you know, a 12 year old kid in his room learns to play lead guitars by trying to do every note of a, you know, Eddie Van Halen solo.
That's just the way you get there, right?
Or you go to the museum and you see people with easels in front of great artworks, trying to repaint them.
And at the same time, also collage, you know, starting with Surrealism and Dada and the kind of quotations that you find in pop art.
and then also sampling and music, the fund of possible images and ideas that float out there are the makings of other kinds of expression.
That's ordinary now.
But we also have a, you know, there's the capitalist imperative to separate an object and protect it, put walls around it and make it, you know, intellectual property.
So these forces all, you know, contend for our
sense of the practice.
I always think it's really important to remember and restore a sense of the practice.
And I know that I make my writings out of what's around me, I make them out of other people's artworks, I make them out of conversations and feelings inside myself.
They're Frankensteins.
and they don't come from nowhere.
This fantasy that the Promethean gesture that something can just be pulled out of an absolute vacuum seems to me kind of silly.
So let me tell you a funny story.
There's a quote in this essay that you're sort of alluding to of mine called The Ecstasy of Influence, which is an essay made out of other people's words.
And I stitched them together and then I kind of reveal the trick at the end.
I turn it over and say, look, this comes from here and this comes from there.
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