So to start out, I’m curious - what ’ s a typical day like for you? Steve Roggenbuck: I’m ready if you are, woo woo.ĪRTnews: OK, here we go. An edited and condensed version of our conversation follows below. I spoke to Roggenbuck about ethical veganism, the gray area between irony and sincerity, and the brilliant (and now-defunct) Twitter account over Facebook chat a few weeks ago. This past spring, Roggenbuck’s videos were featured in the basement hallway at the New Museum Triennial, where he also launched his most recent collection of short stories, titled Calculating How Big Of A Tip To Give Is The Easiest Thing Ever, Shout Out To My Family And Friends (2015). Roggenbuck is a cofounder of the Tucson-based publishing imprint and art collective Boost House, also the name of the literal house in which he lives with the other Boost House members. We can do better than this! Human beings can do better than this!” Almost everyone wakes up and does something they don’t like. Some people die because they don’t have food. Guess who you can’t hug when you’re dead: everyone! Seriously, humans are fucking up. We have to harness this gift….Everything dies. “Back in my grandfather’s day, they didn’t have YOLO. “Two words, jackass: YOLO!” he screams in a 2012 YouTube video titled make something beautiful before you are dead. His crudely Romantic poetry and fiction, which he has been publishing since 2006 on his blog and in videos on social media, frequently employ Internet vernacular and deliberate misspellings (his personal blog is called “live your lief”) in order to strike a chord with as wide an audience as possible. Steve Roggenbuck is an evangelical artist, often associated with the Alt-Lit movement, who makes work that is neither political nor religious but spiritually motivational in the most fundamental of ways. Extracurriculars is a recurring feature in which artists discuss their interests that are not art.
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