Playing infinite games with artist Hank Willis Thomas
Interviewee: Hank Willis Thomas
Background: Conceptual artist shown at the Guggenheim, MoMA, Whitney
Topic: Playing infinite games
Listen: On the
Scenes
Vignettes, flashes, moments in time
Rethinking self-interest
In the late 1990s, people around the world began to live in a state of rising fear of two missing
Our new normal
Gas is cheap but nobody’s filling up.
Houses are full but streets are empty.
Businesses are dying while others
This is how long it takes to change the world
We want change to be instant. Immediate. But there is biological, historical, and sociological evidence that suggests thirty years is
The art of experiencing
“Arriving late at a performance, and seated in the center of the second row, I looked up and saw what