WORK IN PROGRESS!

Before XPUB

Trimester 1

Radio Show 1: Art > Profits

During the first radio show I participated in, I played an excerpt from Le Guin's 2014 speech in which she criticizes capitalist publishing systems and argues profit incentives are inherently against making art. I first heard this speech a year prior and it has stuck with me ever since.

During my time at XPUB so far I've been reflecting a lot on my artistic practice and career goals. I received my game art degree while the games industry was falling apart around me.

"We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words." - Ursula K. Le Guin