"I want to be far from polite." | Artist Calvin Marcus | Louisiana Channel

Subscribe to our channel for more videos on art: “I want my voice in art to be far from polite. I want to go inside and mind something out that doesn’t already exist, that isn’t arty content.” Meet Los Angeles-based Calvin Marcus, who wants to be as slippery as possible to maintain his sense of freedom as an artist. “As an artist, I feel inundated with content all around me. Sometimes I see the things in museums and galleries that are things from ordinary places like the hardware store and found objects that get resurfaced or recontextualized as art objects in an art context. Sometimes I think that all this stuff is already content, already art, and that pushes me personally as an artist. I want to go inside and mind something out that doesn’t already exist, that isn’t arty content because whether it is in a gallery or a store, it already has an object to it; to put it in the gallery is like an art gesture and as interesting as that is, I think my rela