Marcos Lutyens draws upon his expertise and curiosity in neuroscience, cognitive psychology, artificial and animal intelligence, ecological systems, bacterial interaction, and many kinds of indigenous knowledges to create art. As he says, “art needs to be in the world and of the world”. His artistic practice also targets the psychic and emotional well-being of audiences by inviting participants into meditative and hypnotic experiences that affect the deepest levels of their psyche. His works take form in installations, sculptures, drawings, short films, writings and performances and have been shown at a dizzying list of locations, including the Miró Foundation, the Frye Museum, the Guggenheim, MoMA, LACMA, the Royal Academy of Arts, the National Art Museum of China, the Pompidou in Paris, as well as biennales in Liverpool, Istanbul, Havana, and Venice.

In this episode, recorded in May 2020, Marcos reads from ‘Mount Analogue’ by René Daumal.