Maja Malmcrona: Recent Episodes
Maja Malmcrona
Conversations about art, philosophy, psychology, ethics, love, and human nature. Created by Maja Malmcrona who is an artist from Sweden, based in Switzerland.
http://majamalmcrona.com http://instagram.com/majamalmcrona
Fall, excessive heat, brain fatigue, presence, acting at one's optimal capacity, groundedness and disassociation, zoning out, coping mechanisms, introversion versus extraversion, information overload, eye fatigue, social pressure, winter hibernation, art, subtlety, getting to the core of things, park reading, and dogs.
Maja Malmcrona (@majamalmcrona) is an artist from Sweden. Emma Eglinton (@emmasyogalab) is a British/American yoga teacher. They both live in Zürich, Switzerland.
Recorded in Zürich on September 11, 2022.
Maja Malmcrona http://majamalmcrona.com http://instagram.com/majamalmcrona
Emma Eglinton https://www.emmasyoga.ch https://www.instagram.com/emmasyogalab
Art, procrastination, (arbitrary) belief systems, money, public transport, systems of exchange, Glasgow, poverty and deprived neighbourhoods, urban planning, the Swiss heroin programme, Jordan Peele, monstrous clouds, horror films, political statements, and holding one's punches.
Maja Malmcrona (@majamalmcrona) is an artist from Sweden. Adam Nicholson is a PhD candidate in Philosophy at the University of Glasgow (United Kingdom).
Recorded on August 24, 2022.
Maja Malmcrona http://majamalmcrona.com http://instagram.com/majamalmcrona
Adam Nicholson https://twitter.com/G_JuliusGeezer https://publickopinions.wordpress.com/
References Yuval Noah Harari - Sapiens Possilpark, Glasgow Swiss Heroin Programme 'Nasa releases audio of what a black hole 'sounds' like'
The art world, fancy shopping districts, rich Switzerland, Art Basel, art as collector's items, commerical galleries, pleasantries, faux abstraction, contentless art, poser artists, choosing your legacy, commercial and existential success, going against the grain, philosophy and big books, superficiality, Jordan Peterson and Slavoj Žižek, shallowness and hyper-intellectualism, David Foster Wallace, art schools, obscurity for the sake of obscurity, randomness and surrealism, sense-making, and mindless bollocks.
Maja Malmcrona (@majamalmcrona) is an artist from Sweden. Adam Nicholson is a PhD candidate in Philosophy at the University of Glasgow (United Kingdom).
Recorded on August 2, 2022.
Maja Malmcrona http://majamalmcrona.com http://instagram.com/majamalmcrona
Adam Nicholson https://twitter.com/G_JuliusGeezer https://publickopinions.wordpress.com/
References Slavoj Žižek debates Jordan Peterson David Foster Wallace - Infinite Jest Jorinde Voigt
Minimalism, art, mental clarity, inspiration, plant sweat, architecture, modernism and ornament, the burden of history, Shintoism, Studio Ghibli’s Princess Mononoke, good versus evil, mainstream consumerism, Harvey Weinstein, internationalism and English cottages, hermit weekends, artistic propaganda, politics, and a space to breathe.
Maja Malmcrona (@majamalmcrona) is an artist from Sweden. Emma Eglinton (@emmasyogalab) is a British/American yoga teacher. They both live in Zürich, Switzerland.
Recorded in Zürich on July 22, 2022.
Maja Malmcrona http://majamalmcrona.com http://instagram.com/majamalmcrona
Emma Eglinton https://www.emmasyoga.ch https://www.instagram.com/emmasyogalab
References Olivia Laing - Funny Weather Nowness - My Place My Place - Florence Welch Princess Mononoke: The masterpiece that flummoxed the US
Mark Z. Danielewski’s ‘House of Leaves’, insanity, interweaving storylines, suggestive graphic design, creepiness, ghosts, violating one’s space, monsters and slutty unicorns, horror films, found footage, The Blair Witch Project, gluttony, exercise, living in one’s head, the problem with professors, sword-crossing, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, and monotony.
Maja Malmcrona (@majamalmcrona) is an artist from Sweden. Adam Nicholson is a PhD candidate in Philosophy at the University of Glasgow (United Kingdom).
Recorded on July 18, 2022.
Maja Malmcrona http://majamalmcrona.com http://instagram.com/majamalmcrona
Adam Nicholson https://twitter.com/G_JuliusGeezer https://publickopinions.wordpress.com/
References Mark Z. Danielewski - House of Leaves The Blair Witch Project
Cognitive enhancements, drugs, brain implants, authenticity, idea generation, creativity, definitions, art, fraudulence, Neuralink and Elon Musk, struggle, books, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, biceps (and other moulded flabs), acid, artistic masterpieces, experience, George Leonard’s ‘Mastery’, goals, chi, and collective bullshit.
Maja Malmcrona (@majamalmcrona) is an artist from Sweden. Adam Nicholson is a PhD candidate in Philosophy at the University of Glasgow (United Kingdom).
Recorded on May 25, 2022.
Maja Malmcrona http://majamalmcrona.com http://instagram.com/majamalmcrona
Adam Nicholson https://twitter.com/G_JuliusGeezer https://publickopinions.wordpress.com/
Books, creativity, martial arts and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, marketing, art, failure, self-help and philosophy, productivity, procrastination, the thirst for knowledge, interpretations of art, intention, sculpture and the experience of space, order and disorder, summarising your work, yoga and meditation, writing, and the logic of spirituality.
Maja Malmcrona (@majamalmcrona) is an artist from Sweden. Emma Eglinton (@emmasyogalab) is a British/American yoga teacher. They both live in Zürich, Switzerland.
Recorded in Zürich on June 10, 2022.
Maja Malmcrona http://majamalmcrona.com http://instagram.com/majamalmcrona
Emma Eglinton https://www.emmasyoga.ch https://www.instagram.com/emmasyogalab
References George Leonard - Mastery Robert Greene - Mastery Steven Pressfield - The War of Art James Clear - Atomic Habits Justin Kleon - Steal Like an Artist Marina Abramović - Walk Through Walls Richard Serra & Hal Foster - Conversations About Sculpture
Comedy, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, language, taking things seriously, nihilism, beauty, Albert Camus, silliness and passion, communism, political versus non-political comedy, truth-telling and Charlie Hebdo, Aldous Huxley’s ‘Brave New World’, laughter as a goal in itself, storytelling, Andrew Schulz and crowdwork, reading the room, fringe topics and Louis CK, intent and offence, cancel culture, Anglo-Saxon versus European comedy, self-deprecation, limitation and the creative process, Natalie Burdick, Bryan Callen’s ‘Complicated Apes’, letting go of control, and staying in the moment.
Maja Malmcrona is an artist from Sweden. Sven Ivanić is a comedian and lawyer from Switzerland. They both live in Zürich, Switzerland.
Recorded in Zürich on May 28, 2022.
Maja Malmcrona http://majamalmcrona.com http://instagram.com/majamalmcrona
Sven Ivanić https://www.sven-ivanic.ch/ https://www.instagram.com/sven_ivanic/
References Brave New World https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_New_World Natalie Burdick https://www.instagram.com/reel/CMyDc2YHq0Q/ Bryan Callen - Complicated Apes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IhNvtAjGl8
Stress, resistance, Zen philosophy, pursuing a goal versus accepting what happens, free will, Alex Garland’s ‘Devs’, agency, anxiety management, mass shootings, the butterfly effect, consciousness, exposure therapy, exceeding one’s comfort zone, the need for control, yoga and meditation, claustrophobia, self confidence, entrepreneurship, going with the flow, types of passivity, Bessel van der Kolk’s ‘The Body Keeps the Score’, trauma, and meditation exercises.
Maja Malmcrona (@majamalmcrona) is an artist from Sweden. Emma Eglinton (@emmasyogalab) is a British/American yoga teacher. They both live in Zürich, Switzerland.
Recorded in Zürich on May 20, 2022.
Maja Malmcrona http://majamalmcrona.com http://instagram.com/majamalmcrona
Emma Eglinton https://www.emmasyoga.ch https://www.instagram.com/emmasyogalab
References Devs The Body Keeps the Score
Art school, political correctness, beauty, making art for artists, teaching ideas versus skills, painting squares, rejection, pushing something to its limit, predictability, definitions, cognitive enhancement, cheating, authenticity, brain implants and Elon Musk, monetising Twitter, space travel and interplanetary slave trade, billionaires, winning the lottery, and tomatoes.
Maja Malmcrona (@majamalmcrona) is an artist from Sweden. Adam Nicholson is a PhD candidate in Philosophy at the University of Glasgow (United Kingdom).
Recorded on May 3, 2022.
Maja Malmcrona http://majamalmcrona.com http://instagram.com/majamalmcrona
Adam Nicholson https://twitter.com/G_JuliusGeezer https://publickopinions.wordpress.com/
Creativity, nature, Switzerland, (faking) normality, being alone, freelancing, empathy, ignoring the news, the Ukraine War, spreading positivity, charitable giving, aggressive marketing and fear-mongering, bullying, indifference and coping mechanisms, caring as weakness, Simon & Garfunkel, art marking moments in time, Sarah Sze, Rorschach tests, and boob drawings.
Maja Malmcrona (@majamalmcrona) is an artist from Sweden. Emma Eglinton (@emmasyogalab) is a British/American yoga teacher. They both live in Zürich, Switzerland.
Recorded in Zürich on April 22, 2022.
Maja Malmcrona http://majamalmcrona.com http://instagram.com/majamalmcrona
Emma Eglinton https://www.emmasyoga.ch https://www.instagram.com/emmasyogalab
References Sarah Sze - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEjegKJwI0M
Books, philosophy, self-help, Donald Robertson’s How to Think Like a Roman Emperor, stoicism, Marcus Aurelius, Austin Kleon’s Steal Like an Artist, catastrophic thinking, Marina Abramovic’s Walk Through Walls, fiction versus non-fiction, truth, J.R.R Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, Letters of Note (@lettersofnote), storytelling, life cycles, Chef’s Table’s Alex Atala, Denis Villeneuve’s Arrival, time, and rebirth.
Maja Malmcrona (@majamalmcrona) is a visual artist from Sweden. Emma Eglinton (@emmasyogalab) is a British/American yoga teacher. They both live in Zürich, Switzerland.
Recorded in Zürich on March 11, 2022.
Maja Malmcrona http://majamalmcrona.com http://instagram.com/majamalmcrona
Emma Eglinton https://www.emmasyoga.ch https://www.instagram.com/emmasyogalab
References https://instagram.com/lettersofnote
Boredom, creativity, granting one’s mind room to wander, rainy train rides, airplane WiFi, productivity, phone addiction, sensory deprivation tanks, increasing one’s awareness, the city at night, party music in department stores, marathon running, mediation (and hysterical crying), being who we think we are, understanding our purpose, group behaviour, and being a mere monkey in a group (...of monkeys).
Julia Chatain (@thediverter_) is a doctoral student in Computer Science at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. She is fascinated by the role of concreteness in mathematics education and, in particular, she explores how our bodies can help develop intuition about abstract concepts.
Recorded in Zürich on March 20, 2022.
http://majamalmcrona.com http://instagram.com/majamalmcrona
https://juliachatain.com/ https://thediverter.online/ https://www.instagram.com/thediverter_/ https://twitter.com/JuliaChatain https://twitter.com/TheDiverter
Beauty, the aesthetic experience, politics and art schools, street performance, presence, suspending one’s disbelief, religious experiences, supernaturalism, becoming one with one’s environment, psychedelics, Carl Jung, LSD and the famous bike ride, psychology, mental states, consciousness, meditation and hypnosis, Johns Hopkins University’s psilocybin experiments, changing one’s personality, addiction treatment, Wassily Kandinsky’s ‘Concerning the Spiritual in Art’, abstraction and non-objectivism, art, morality, truth and equilibrium, Nazi architecture, music and collective experiences, brainwave synchronisation, jazz solos, the policing of mental states, Ken Kesey’s ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest’, microdosing, and curiosity.
Maja Malmcrona (@majamalmcrona) is a Switzerland-based contemporary artist from Sweden. Frederik Bredgaard is a Denmark-based consultant with a psychology degree from the University of Copenhagen.
Recorded on March 17, 2022.
http://majamalmcrona.com http://instagram.com/majamalmcrona
Artistic influences, Sarah Sze’s multimedia sculptures, how objects mark time, fragmentation, the beginning and end of art, threshold and hierarchy, the lost art of painting, moving through scales, John Singer Sargent’s portraits, realism and expression, the element of time, Richard Serra’s monumental sculptures, disrupting the architecture, Hal Foster’s ‘Conversations about Sculpture’, George Kubler’s ‘The Shape of Time’ (or whatever the fuck it’s called), replication versus prime objects, 19th century literature, Henry James’s ‘The Turn of the Screw’, ghost stories and difficult prose, modernism, Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s ‘The Brother’s Karamazov’, pessimism, and comedy.
Maja Malmcrona (@majamalmcrona) is an artist from Sweden. Adam Nicholson is a PhD candidate in Philosophy at the University of Glasgow (United Kingdom).
Recorded on March 11, 2022.
http://majamalmcrona.com http://instagram.com/majamalmcrona
https://twitter.com/G_JuliusGeezer https://publickopinions.wordpress.com/
Artistic influences, Sarah Sze’s multimedia sculptures, how objects mark time, fragmentation, the beginning and end of art, threshold and hierarchy, the lost art of painting, moving through scales, John Singer Sargent’s portraits, realism and expression, the element of time, Richard Serra’s monumental sculptures, disrupting the architecture, Hal Foster’s ‘Conversations about Sculpture’, George Kubler’s ‘The Shape of Time’ (or whatever the fuck it’s called), replication versus prime objects, 19th century literature, Henry James’s ‘The Turn of the Screw’, ghost stories and difficult prose, modernism, Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s ‘The Brother’s Karamazov’, pessimism, and comedy.
Maja Malmcrona (@majamalmcrona) is an artist from Sweden. Adam Nicholson is a PhD candidate in Philosophy at the University of Glasgow (United Kingdom). Recorded on March 11, 2022.
http://majamalmcrona.com http://instagram.com/majamalmcrona
https://twitter.com/G_JuliusGeezer https://publickopinions.wordpress.com/
Books, reading, Socrates, memory, Plato’s Dialogues, Gilbert Ryle’s ‘The Concept of Mind’, different ways of thinking, hyper-intelligent debates, Twitter and technology, quantum biology, knowledge as power, self-development, wisdom and humility, Dostoyevsky, airport thrillers and heroin, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, controlled adversity, triple-deckers, Werner Herzog, J. A. Baker’s ‘The Peregrine’, imagination and creativity, science fiction, Stanisław Lem’s 'Solaris', Christopher Priest’s 'The Prestige', physics, art, storytelling, and our monkey brains.
Maja Malmcrona (@majamalmcrona) is an artist from Sweden. Adam Nicholson is a PhD candidate in Philosophy at the University of Glasgow (United Kingdom). Recorded on February 21, 2022.
http://majamalmcrona.com http://instagram.com/majamalmcrona
https://twitter.com/G_JuliusGeezer https://publickopinions.wordpress.com/
About the spring, new beginnings, the state of the world (and the Russian-Ukrainian War), imposing one’s reality upon others, Putin drinking tea, Ernest Becker’s ‘The Denial of Death’, leaving a mark, appreciating the small moments, being non-productive, forest revelations, adopting multiple identities, nostalgia, connecting the dots of one’s past, eliminating choices, habits, spreading oneself thin, anxiety, the art of figuring it out, self-directed studying, alternative nostril breathing, and science (bitches!).
Maja Malmcrona (@majamalmcrona) is a visual artist from Sweden. Emma Eglinton (@emmasyogalab) is a British/American yoga teacher. They both live in Zürich, Switzerland.
Recorded in Zürich on March 11, 2022.
http://majamalmcrona.com http://instagram.com/majamalmcrona
https://www.emmasyoga.ch https://www.instagram.com/emmasyogalab
About habits, perfectionism, motivation, James Clear’s ‘Atomic Habits’, dopamine detoxing, boredom, brushing your teeth, the Metaverse, productive procrastination, Duolingo and the angry bird, mindfulness, introversion, productivity, Yuval Noah Harari and Jack Dorsey, technology addiction, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, transcendental meditation, moving one’s consciousness, alcoholism, freelancing, discipline, habit stacking, and space cleansing.
Maja Malmcrona (@majamalmcrona) is a visual artist from Sweden. Emma Eglinton (@emmasyogalab) is a British/American yoga teacher. They both live in Zürich, Switzerland.
Recorded in Zürich on February 11, 2022.
http://majamalmcrona.com http://instagram.com/majamalmcrona
https://www.emmasyoga.ch https://www.instagram.com/emmasyogalab
Art and its purpose, Jens Haaning’s ‘Take the Money and Run’ (2021), ethics, theft and controversy, irrelevant debates, Marco Evaristti’s ‘Helena’ (2000), imaginary dichotomies, truth and illusion, the art market, Banksy’s shredded ‘Love is in the Bin’ (2018), art for the sake of money, boxing personas and Conor McGregor, creating a niche versus restricting yourself, consistency and contradiction, cognitive dissonance, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (and BJJ Globetrotters), music, expectations, finding a common denominator, psychology, the dichotomy of trait and state, incorrect interpretations, literature and Roland Barthes ‘Death of the Author’, definitions and specificity, what art should not do, usefulness and expectations, challenging the status quo, the role of beauty, and the art of confusion.
Maja Malmcrona (@majamalmcrona) is a Switzerland-based contemporary artist from Sweden. Frederik Bredgaard is a Denmark-based consultant with a psychology degree from the University of Copenhagen.
Recorded on February 3, 2022.
http://majamalmcrona.com http://instagram.com/majamalmcrona
Controversial art, performance and theft, Jens Haaning’s ‘Take the money and Run’ (2021), music and participation, materialism, Anna Odell’s ‘Okänd, kvinna 2009–349701’ (2009), staging a suicide, harm versus offence, definitions, animal cruelty and morality, self absorption, Maurizio Cattelan’s ‘Comedian’ (aka the banana on the wall), criticising the wrong people, the problems of psychiatry, audience-specific versus universal art, inclusivity, and Adam’s naked cheeks.
Maja Malmcrona (@majamalmcrona) is an artist from Sweden. Adam Nicholson is a PhD candidate in Philosophy at the University of Glasgow (United Kingdom). Recorded on January 31, 2022.
http://majamalmcrona.com http://instagram.com/majamalmcrona
https://twitter.com/G_JuliusGeezer https://publickopinions.wordpress.com/
Mathematics as invention or discovery, definitions, purity versus application, bank balances and types of numbers, art and beauty, Euler’s formula, triangles and infinity, the flatness of the earth, balls and spheres, the hedgehog theorem, the Mandelbrot set, mandalas and Jesus, symmetry and simplicity, Sou Fujimoto, Ilya Prigogine & Isabelle Stenger’s ‘Order Out of Chaos’, architecture, putting a bow on things, dirt and art, Sarah Sze and art’s beginning and end, art as objects or environments, and awkward endings.
Maja Malmcrona (@majamalmcrona) is a Switzerland-based contemporary artist from Sweden. Adrian Montgomery Ruf is a mathematician at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu athlete, and outdoor enthusiast from Berlin, Germany.
Recorded in Zürich on January 29, 2022.
http://majamalmcrona.com http://instagram.com/majamalmcrona
About regrets, touching one’s face, dreams and murder zombies, perfectionism and procrastination, dirty art, entropy and creativity, meaning, farming metaphors, the value of making mistakes (and letting go of control), The School of Life, hope and anger, expectations, and presence.
Maja Malmcrona (@majamalmcrona) is an artist from Sweden. Emma Eglinton (@emmasyogalab) is a British/American yoga teacher. They both live in Zürich, Switzerland.
Recorded in Zürich on January 28, 2022.
http://majamalmcrona.com http://instagram.com/majamalmcrona
https://www.emmasyoga.ch https://www.instagram.com/emmasyogalab