“The fear of making a mistake or playing a wrong note is a terrible disease and I’m glad I never had it”
In the ArtReview Podcast, artists, thinkers and cultural figures are invited to choose three works as lenses through which to examine their practice and explore critical issues impacting the contemporary art world.
For episode nine of the ArtReview Podcast, musician and artist Jack White speaks to ArtReview contributors Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard about Detroit, upholstery, mistakes, and his current exhibition in London, These Thoughts May Disappear, on view at Newport Street Gallery until September.
Listen now on Spotify and YouTube. All of the works referenced in this podcast can be viewed below.
About Jack White
You’ll likely know White for his music, both in The White Stripes in the noughties and then as a solo artist, producer and head of his Third Man Records label thereafter. Indeed, this new exhibition in London is the first to show his visual art practice in a formal gallery setting. The scope is broad, from sculptures made with found objects and furniture design to interactive works and installations; the inspiration is, in many ways, devoutly local to Detroit, his hometown, the city’s Cass Corridor neighbourhood and the associated art movement that emerged from it in the 1970s, around which White was raised. Parked up in the predictably luminescent cafe of Damien Hirst’s Newport Street Gallery, White spoke with Forsyth and Pollard, artists and filmmakers in their own right, for whom music plays a pivotal role in their work, counting Scott Walker, Jarvis Cocker and Gil Scott-Heron among many other collaborators.
Credits
Interviewers: Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard
Host and producer: Alexander Leissle @alexanderleissle
Audio editor: Charlie Duffield
Music design: Iona Smith @ic_yonic
Works mentioned
SDX Satellite Delay (1983–84) by Gordon Newton
The Red Tree (2015) by Jack White
