Podcast: Tao Lin on the Art of Unknowing

Subject, Object, Verb explores the connections between artists, art and life

Tao Lin has a relentlessly curious mind. In his fiction, poetry, and nonfiction, he toes the line between reality and the imagined. His newest novel, Leave Society (2021), uses a great depth of nonfictional research to push against the ideas of accepted science as they related to his life. In an era of proliferating controversial theories, Tao’s book celebrates the ability of science to refuse certainty and open up a space of unknowing. On this episode, Lin discusses a variety of ideas, including flat earth, hollow earth and free energy – alternative theories that, for Lin, serve as fertile material for his art.

Host
Ross Simonini

Credits
Produced by ArtReview and Ross Simonini
Featured image: birds mandala (2017) by Tao Lin