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Kenneth Goldsmith - On Transgression, Modernism, and Free-Form Radio (Or, why if something's not on the internet it doesn't exist)
Posted by: Robin Amer on October 27, 2006 05:03 PM | Comments (0)
Kenny G knows all about transgressive radio. In the last twelve years as a DJ on WFMU, he has done the inconceivable. He has aired three hours of snoring and farting, whispered the entire communist manifesto while wearing couture clothing, and done his entire show blindfolded, bound and gagged. It's just the tip of the iceberg. "Modern art is a sanctified lunatic asylum," he says. That's his analysis, but it could also be his m.o.
Kenny played a selection of strange and shocking sound clips taken from his site Ubu Web, the largest repository for avant guard works on the web. After he played ramblings by famous modernists like Joyce and Man Ray, outsider art, kitsch, Dutch sound poetry and some good old fashioned screaming, we sat down for a chat in the hotel bar.
Interview with Kenneth Goldsmith of Ubu Web (28 min)
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