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A tour of outsider art across the world, guided by Jarvis Cocker.
Journeys Into the Outside with Jarvis Cocker
1999 Directed by Martin Wallace
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It was inevitable that a podcast featuring Ewan and I would cover Jarvis Cocker at some point, but which film? One of his Wes Anderson collabs? The Pulp documentary? That one Harry Potter film he randomly shows up in? All good suggestions, but are you aware that he made a whole documentary miniseries about outsider art? We were, so we made an episode about it.
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- There's a new resonance to watching this documentary in the light of Jarvis's memoir, Good Pop Bad Pop, which chronicles his early life through objects he found during an attic clear-out. Many of the artists profiled use everyday junk in their sculptures and buildings, suggesting that without their peculiar genius they may…
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I DIDNT KNOW THIS WAS ON HERE WTF one of my fav things ever omg . love that funky little man and his terrible terrible french
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Art and life seemingly coexist, or that is what Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker believes. He sets out his thesis in Journeys into the Outside with Jarvis Cocker, a documentary series hoping to detail the distinguishing factors of everyday art in life and living around it. Architecture is art, but most pay no attention to it. Cocker goes a little deeper, a little madder than that. Studying rocks and beachfronts where the art is in the everyday normalities gives this Channel 4 documentary a new angle to behold. Cocker, the natural documentary host given his voice and his ability to mark intricacies of generally unknown areas, matches up with a tour of European art and an American tour of sincerely fascinating…
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so sad that there are only three episodes! devoured this, i could have easily watched another ten. super refreshing hearing jarvis talk about his discontent with the stuffiness and insincerity of the mainstream art world which is something i relate to wholeheartedly. he has such a pleasant voice to listen to too, watching this felt very comforting and cosy. shout out to him for being one of the only tolerable people to come out of csm!