Host of Artists on the Verge, Ema Katrovas, shares her next-day impressions after a live show she created which was two years in the making - and, more importantly, how her experiences around the budget, the technical aspects of the show, the r

55: Ep. 10: How Camp Explains Taste (ft. a final review of The Sudbury Devil) | An Opera Singer and a Comedian Walk Into a Bar

Mar 19th, 2024 1h 13m

Welcome to another conversation from the high/low art divide between opera-singer-turned-experimental-performer Ema Katrovas and comedian-and-TV-writer-turned-novelist Nicholas Anthony. I was going to put the film the Sudbury Devil (whose crea

54: Ep. 9: Trip to New York Pt. II: What is it like to Sleep No More? (first impressions of immersive theatre recorded at Scallywags Irish Pub) | An Opera Singer and a Comedian Walk Into a Bar

Mar 8th, 2024 29m 33s

Welcome to another conversation from the high/low art divide between opera-singer-turned-experimental-performer Ema Katrovas and comedian-and-TV-writer-turned-novelist Nicholas Anthony. This episode is the second half of a two-part series reco

53: Ep. 8: Trip to New York Pt. I: High Art About Poor Artists (recorded at the Met Opera House) | An Opera Singer and a Comedian Walk Into a Bar

Feb 20th, 2024 36m 48s

Welcome to another conversation from the high/low art divide between opera-singer-turned-experimental-performer Ema Katrovas and comedian-and-TV-writer-turned-novelist Nicholas Anthony. This episode is the first half of a two-part series reco

52: A Friendly Debate With Andrew Rakich On His Epic Micro-budget Film - The Sudbury Devil

Jan 30th, 2024 1h 14m

A conversation with Adrew Rakich of @AtunSheiFilms on his micro-budget period horror movie The Sudbury Devil. Watch on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/FXYgbsub4ggRent or Buy the Sudbury Devil here: https://atunsheifilms.vhx.tv/products/the-

51: A Conversation with William Deresiewicz, Author of Death of the Artist

Jan 26th, 2024 1h 8m

Comedian-and-TV-writer-turned-novelist Nicholas Anthony and opera-singer-turned-experimental-performer Ema Katrovas talk to William Deresiewicz, author of /Death of the Artist: How Creatives Struggle to Survive In the Age of Billionaires and Bi

50: Ep. 7: “We tell ourselves stories in order to live” (ft. The Beatles and the Avant Garde) | An Opera Singer and a Comedian Walk Into a Bar

Dec 31st, 2023 58m 12s

Welcome to another conversation from the high/low art divide between opera-singer-turned-experimental-performer Ema Katrovas and comedian-and-TV-writer-turned-novelist Nicholas Anthony.For this end-of-the-year episode, Nick and Ema decided to

49: Ep. 6: A Comedian Goes to High Art World | An Opera Singer and a Comedian Walk Into a Bar

Dec 30th, 2023 1h 8m

Welcome to another conversation from the high/low art divide between opera-singer-turned-experimental-performer Ema Katrovas and comedian-and-TV-writer-turned-novelist Nicholas Anthony. On Nick’s last night in Prague, Nick and Ema went to see

48: Ep. 5: The Wild West of Technology (ft. Death of the Artist - again) | An Opera Singer and a Comedian Walk Into a Bar

Dec 2nd, 2023 1h 7m

An Opera Singer and a Comedian Walk Into a Bar is a segment of the Artists on the Verge podcast which features conversations from the high/low art divide between comedian and TV writer Nicholas Anthony and your host Ema Katrovas. In this epis

47: Artist Portrait No. 25: Melissa Watkins (writer)

Nov 25th, 2023 56m 46s

Melissa Watkins is a writer, mostly of non fiction and science fiction. She’s also one of the most truly cosmopolitan people you'll ever meet. Originally from the US, she spent a substantial portion of her life first in the UK then in South Kor

46: Ep. 4: Controversial Subjects (and Reading Death of the Artist) | An Opera Singer and a Comedian Walk Into a Bar

Nov 18th, 2023 1h 15m

45: Snippet No. 16: We Need a More BORING Definition of "Artist" (ft. my Medium article)

Nov 13th, 2023 9m 6s

This is an audio version of an article I wrote arguing against using the phrase "everyone is an artist." Read the full article here: https://medium.com/@ema.katrovas/we-need-a-more-boring-definition-of-artist-4b4aa9f76832💋👁👂🏼 Artists

44: Ep. 3: Arguing About Death of the Artist | An Opera Singer and a Comedian Walk Into a Bar

Nov 4th, 2023 59m 44s

An Opera Singer and a Comedian Walk Into a Bar features opera-singer-turned-experimental-performer Ema Katrovas, talking to comedian-and-TV-writer-turned-novelist Nicholas Anthony. They have conversations from across the high/low art divide wit

43: Ep. 2: The True Hollywood Experience | An Opera Singer and a Comedian Walk Into a Bar

Oct 23rd, 2023 1h 10m

Welcome to episode 2 of this segment of the Artists on the Verge podcast called an Opera Singer and a Comedian Walk Into a Bar. It features your host, opera-singer-turned-experimental-performer Ema Katrovas, talking to comedian-and-TV-writer tu

42: Ep. 1: High/Low Arts Education | An Opera Singer and a Comedian Walk Into a Bar

Oct 7th, 2023 53m 42s

An Opera Singer and a Comedian Walk Into a Bar is a new segment of the Artists ont he Verge podcast. It features your host, opera-singer-turned-experimental-performer Ema Katrovas, talking to comedian-and-TV-writer turned-novelist Nicholas Anth

ANNOUNCING: Back from break/New Segment Preview/Reels & Shorts

Oct 5th, 2023 7m 36s

Artists on the Verge is Back from break! Here is a sneak-peak of a new segment, An Opera Singer and a Comedian Walk Into a Bar. To follow the shorts/reels on YouTube or Instagram: YouTube: @ArtistsontheVergeInstagram: @artists_on_the_verg

41: Snippet No. 15: Scriptlessness: An Underrated Issue Facing Artists (+going on break!)

Aug 23rd, 2023 2m 48s

Watch video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/4O0W4A2l5dsI learned the term "scriptlessness" recently and realized it's why I started the Artists on the Verge channel. Source: David Graeber's /Bullshit Jobs/ which cites a a paper called "Unrequi

40: Snippet No. 14: I Read a G20 Report on the Creative Economy So You Won't Have To

Aug 10th, 2023 1h 3m

I was surprised to learn that it wasn’t until 2020 that the G20 held its first Cultural Ministerial Meeting to discuss the importance of the creative sector to the economy and it wasn’t until 2021 that they established the Cultural Working Grou

39: Snippet No. 13: Reading “The Arts After Darwin" by Ellen Dissanayake Pt. 2

Jul 26th, 2023 50m 20s

This is the second part of my reading “The Arts After Darwin: Does Art Have an Origin and Adaptive Function?”In the first part of the essay, Ellen Dissanayake explained why she thinks it’s helpful to think of art as an adaptive function and l

38: Snippet No. 12: Reading “The Arts After Darwin" by Ellen Dissanayake Pt. 1

Jul 19th, 2023 48m 23s

This is the first part of my reading “The Arts After Darwin: Does Art Have an Origin and Adaptive Function?” The author, Ellen Dissanayake, is best known for three books on art anthropology: What Is Art For? (1988), Homo Aestheticus: Where Ar

37: Snippet No. 11: Summary of "Another Artworld" by Nika Dubrovsky & David Graeber + My Reaction

Jul 5th, 2023 9m 40s

An under-3-minute summary of the three-part essay "Another Artworld" which examines the fraught legacy of "high" art. Also - my take. This is actually a video episode, though it can also just be listened to. You can find it on YouTube here: ht

36: Snippet No. 10: Streaming is the Message/Opera Americana (ft. Theorema Review & Experiments in Opera)

Jun 21st, 2023 30m 13s

This is my honest review of the colossal undertaking thatwas the TV opera Everything for Dawn by Experiments in Opera. The reviewwas “commissioned by” Theorema Review, a recently-started multi-lingual journalin which artists review other art

35: Snippet No. 9: Reacting to "Another Art World" by Nika Dubrovsky and David Graeber (Pt. 3)

Jun 7th, 2023 1h 23m

We're finally here - at the third installment of reading "Another Art World" by Nika Dubrovsky and David Graeber. Even if you're a new listener, you can start here because in the last segment, the author's promised to finally get to the heart o

34: Artist Portrait No. 24: Reilly Smethurst (composer, Web III researcher)

May 31st, 2023 59m 38s

This episode is a conversation with composer and Web III researcher Reilly Smethurst - who thinks the internet is just about the worst thing that happened to artists. Is it a pessimistic episode? I actually don't think so.My take: The fact tha

33: Snippet No. 8: Reacting to "Another Art World" by Nika Dubrovsky and David Graeber (Pt. 2)

May 10th, 2023 43m 13s

No time to read academic essays? Well, have no fear, we'll read this one together. "Another Art World" by David Graeber and Nika Dubrovsky examines how we might re-imagine the art world. Part II of "Another Art World" lays out a hypothesis abo