This episode centers on collaboration, not as a creative ideal, but as a practical structure shaped by roles, labor, expectations, and authorship.

https://www.gandy.cc/art

https://dared.art/

The conversation moves through questions of hierarchy, responsibility, and ownership: who initiates a project, who maintains it, and how uneven labor or unclear roles generate tension over time. Rather than framing collaboration as inherently positive, the discussion treats it as a system that requires planning, boundaries, and explicit agreements in order to remain sustainable.

Topics addressed include:

The difference between participation, contribution, and authorship

Why unclear roles produce ego conflicts and resentment

Collaboration between artists versus collaboration with brands or institutions

Planning, metrics, and structure as forms of care rather than control

Success defined as skill development and continuity, not visibility or scale

The episode also reflects on why many artists prefer working alone, and why collaboration in visual art often fails where other disciplines (such as music) have clearer hierarchies and conventions. This is not a guide to collaboration, but a record of thinking through its limits in real time.

📍 Recorded in Berlin

🎙️ Long-form conversation, minimally edited

Gandy and Dared discuss artist visibility from their Berlin Studio.

Gandy: https://www.gandy.cc/art

Dared: https://dared.art/

This is not a debate or an argument. It is a recorded moment of thinking between artists attempting to articulate standards for their own work.

📍 Recorded in Berlin

🎙️ Minimal intervention, conversational structure

This episode documents a conversation centered on the question of truth in art, not as authenticity branding, but as method, intention, and consequence.

Gandy: https://www.gandy.cc/art

Dared: https://dared.art/

Moving through museums, painting, graffiti, stand-up comedy, and conceptual practice, the discussion examines how honesty operates differently across contexts, and why certain work feels inert while other work carries weight. The conversation resists conclusions, focusing instead on how artists orient themselves toward making without defaulting to performance, moral signaling, or visibility.

Themes include:

Truth versus honesty as artistic strategies

Intention, ego, and authorship

Cultural context and German directness

Public work, graffiti, and responsibility

Fear-driven production versus commitment-driven practice

This is not a debate or an argument. It is a recorded moment of thinking between artists attempting to articulate standards for their own work.

📍 Recorded in Berlin

🎙️ Minimal intervention, conversational structure

This episode focuses on role models, not as figures to emulate, but as background forces that shape artistic orientation long before career or identity solidifies.

Gandy: https://www.gandy.cc/art

Dared: https://dared.art/

The conversation moves between the American South and Berlin, touching on hip hop, graffiti, libraries, early internet access, and the uneven distribution of cultural resources. Rather than celebrating influence, the episode examines how artists are formed by environments, constraints, and accidents of access.

Topics include:

Subculture as informal education

Libraries and archives as overlooked infrastructure

Regional difference and cultural density

Learning without mentors

Influence without imitation

The discussion avoids nostalgia and avoids hero narratives. It treats influence as something structural rather than inspirational - something that conditions practice whether acknowledged or not.

📍 Recorded in Berlin

🎙️ Long-form, low-intervention conversation

This episode examines motivation from the position of sustained practice rather than aspiration.

Gandy: https://www.gandy.cc/art

Dared: https://dared.art/

Beginning with music and aging, the conversation moves through discipline, guilt, trauma, mortality, education, and the practical systems artists build to continue working when motivation is unreliable or absent. Personal experiences are discussed not as confession, but as context for understanding why certain commitments harden over time.

Themes include:

Motivation versus discipline

Aging and changing energy

Trauma as structuring force rather than narrative

The limits of inspiration

Systems, routines, and obligation to one’s own work

Tension between art, economics, and autonomy

The episode resists motivational framing. It treats continuation as a problem to be solved structurally, not emotionally.

📍 Recorded in Berlin

🎙️ Long-form conversation with minimal editing

This episode treats conversation itself as material.

Gandy: https://www.gandy.cc/art

Dared: https://dared.art/

Rather than approaching dialogue as explanation or commentary, the recording documents two artists speaking in real time — allowing uncertainty, digression, repetition, and unfinished thought to remain intact. The focus is not on conclusions, but on how meaning forms through speech, pause, disagreement, and alignment.

The episode sits between discussion and audio work: not a podcast episode in the traditional sense, and not a statement. It functions as a trace of thinking - shaped by context, proximity, and time.

Themes that surface include:

Conversation as process rather than communication

Language as a working medium

Misunderstanding, overlap, and interruption

Authorship within shared space

Speaking without resolving

The recording resists clarity as an end goal. What matters here is continuity - how ideas circulate, stall, or change when spoken aloud between artists.

📍 Recorded in Berlin

🎙️ Audio-first, minimally edited

This episode was recorded in a reduced state.

Gandy: https://www.gandy.cc/art

Dared: https://dared.art/

Fatigue, distraction, and lowered attention are not edited out or corrected. Instead, they shape the conversation - affecting pace, focus, and what is possible to articulate. The episode documents how artists speak when energy is limited and productivity is not the priority. Rather than addressing a defined subject, the conversation drifts through observations about art, work, and daily life, allowing pauses, half-formed thoughts, and minor digressions to remain intact.

Elements that surface include:

Tiredness as a working condition

Informality and lowered performance

Speaking without urgency or conclusion

The difference between conversation and explanation

Making space for unpolished thought

This recording does not aim to clarify or resolve. It functions as a document of condition - a record of how thinking sounds when pressure is absent.

📍 Recorded in Berlin

🎙️ Minimal editing, conversational pacing

This is the first recording. There is no formal introduction, premise, or agenda.

The episode documents two artists speaking without a defined structure, allowing the conversation to unfold without attempting to establish tone, authority, or direction.

Gandy: https://www.gandy.cc/art

Dared: https://dared.art/

Rather than functioning as an opening statement, the recording operates as a baseline — a reference point for what follows. The emphasis is on presence, proximity, and the act of recording itself, rather than explanation or positioning.

Elements that appear include:

-Informal conversation without framing

-Early uncertainty around structure and intent

-Speech as process rather than message

-Establishing continuity through recording, not declaration

The episode does not attempt to explain the project. It exists as a trace: the moment the archive begins.

📍 Recorded in Berlin

🎙️ Raw audio, minimal intervention