My Favourite Elliott Smith Song

S3 Ep10: Bunny Rogers

Sep 3, 2020

25:12

Joining us today is the visual artist, Bunny Rogers.

Bunny is a contemporary American artist that creates installation, video and sculptural works. She told us that Elliott Smith has been a big inspiration in a number of her works, sometimes consciously and other times subconsciously.

Bunny has exhibited her work at many significant art museums and organisations all around the world, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, The Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles, Societe, Berlin, Louisiana Museum of Art, Denmark, Art Basel and most recently at Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria.

Excited to bring you a different take on Elliott Smith than we have done before and to cover a track we've been wanting to discuss for a while.

Photo by Filip Olszewski.

Extra things to look at / listen to:

True Love by Elliott Smith on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/0xuwiQwAXEG9IWACfGeRai?si=AMpdt2p_TFiZIb-X_8iH3Q
True Love by Elliott Smith (Bunny's preferred version): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvTQBHsMLa0
Sister Unn’s (installation in Queens NY converted into an abandoned flower shop. This project has a subconscious reference to Elliott Smith. The first line in True Love is “True love is a rose behind glass”. She realised the reference years later: http://meryn.ru/portfolia/sister-unns/
Columbine Cafeteria is an installation featuring a video that play 3 Elliott Smith covers, "See You in Heaven" "Son of Sam" and "Unlucky Charm: http://societeberlin.com/zh/exhibitions/bunny-rogers-columbine-cafeteria/
Kind Kingdom, Bunny's latest work that was exhibited at Kunsthaus Bregenz in Austria earlier this year: https://www.bregenz.travel/bunny-rogers-kind-kingdom/
Life of the Record podcast episode on Elliott Smith self-titled record: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/life-of-the-record/id1487396757
More Elliott Smith self-titled record related content on this thread: https://twitter.com/MyFavESmithSong/status/1299276518196228096?s=20