{"id":1486,"date":"2011-03-30T13:24:49","date_gmt":"2011-03-30T20:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp\/2011\/03\/after_you_make_the_thing_you_h\/"},"modified":"2011-03-30T13:24:49","modified_gmt":"2011-03-30T20:24:49","slug":"after_you_make_the_thing_you_h","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/main\/after_you_make_the_thing_you_h.php","title":{"rendered":"After you make the thing, you have to mediate it into the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KCRW&#8217;s The Business offers a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kcrw.com\/etc\/programs\/tb\/tb110328julian_schnabel_simo\">fascinating interview with visual artist and filmmaker Julian Schnabel<\/a> on his perspective and approach to film.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>As an internationally renowned visual artist, whose works hang in major museums and draw big-ticket sales figures, Schnabel is in a unique position to draw financing, and to explore the film medium as an art rather than a business. For many of his films, he guaranteed the financing investment with his own art works. And for many, he was a significant investor himself.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Of particular interest (to me anyway) is his response to a question about all the &#8216;mundane&#8217; tasks that go between completing a film and getting it to market &#8212; promos, one-sheets, advertising, and other marketing. To which he says:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"webkit-indent-blockquote\" style=\"margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;\">\n<div>&#8221;That&#8217;s not mundane, actually. After you make the thing, you have to mediate it into the world.&#8221;<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Which is a rather elegant way of describing the purpose and focus of marketing, as part of (or at least partner to) the canvas of the creative work.<\/div>\n<div><\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<object width=\"424\" height=\"268\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.kcrw.com\/etc\/programs\/tb\/tb110328julian_schnabel_simo\/embed-audio\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.kcrw.com\/etc\/programs\/tb\/tb110328julian_schnabel_simo\/embed-audio\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"424\" height=\"268\"><\/object>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KCRW&#8217;s The Business offers a fascinating interview with visual artist and filmmaker Julian Schnabel on his perspective and approach to film.&nbsp; As an internationally renowned visual artist, whose works hang in major museums and draw big-ticket sales figures, Schnabel is in a unique position to draw financing, and to explore the film medium as an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1486","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}