Infinite Conversations

This pilot episode of the Infinite Conversations podcast features the writer, actor, mystic, and activist Mark Binet. It explores the difficult relationship between art, commerce, and activism—asking to what degree contemporary artists are implicated in unjust systems and self-serving motives. Must an artist necessarily oppose power, or can she work with power—especially economic power—to serve noble ends? What might be these ends be? In other words: What are the ethics of aesthetics?Music by Chris Zabriskie. http://www.chriszabriskie.com/