{"id":1974073,"date":"2025-08-22T08:57:01","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T08:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1974073"},"modified":"2025-08-22T08:57:01","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T08:57:01","slug":"why-artists-stay-stuck-and-how-to-get-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/why-artists-stay-stuck-and-how-to-get-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Artists Stay Stuck \u2014 And How to Get Free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DMNkQnBl2ao?autoplay=1&#038;modestbranding=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>In this episode of The Choe Show, David Choe stages a volatile meditation on what it means to live as an artist when the very identity of \u201cartist\u201d becomes both salvation and prison. Speaking with the urgency of someone oscillating between confession and performance, Choe exposes the psychic and physical costs of his craft: carpal tunnel, missed birthdays, fragile social skills, and the corrosive need for validation. \u201cArtists don\u2019t know how to talk,\u201d he insists, revealing how creative discipline can atrophy the body even as it hones the hand.<\/p>\n<p>But Choe does not remain in pathology. The episode pivots toward rupture, toward an ethic of discomfort: wearing absurd costumes, fumbling on YouTube, pushing through the resistance of the everyday in order to connect\u2014with strangers, with community, with himself. What begins as a dissection of pettiness, jealousy, and addiction becomes a rehearsal for transformation, a call to \u201cunsubscribe from the narrative\u201d and remember who you are.<\/p>\n<p>Less documentary than meta-performance, the episode demonstrates how language itself can be wielded as both wound and cure. Here, Choe asks not simply how an artist makes work, but how an artist might unfuck himself\u2014and in doing so, invite us to attempt the same.<br \/>\n============================================================<\/p>\n<p>David Choe is an American artist, musician, and former podcast host from Los Angeles. He has produced his own talk show called The Choe Show on FX Networks, and  has appeared on various other shows such a The Joe Rogan Experience, the Rich Roll podcast, and Tiger Belly.<\/p>\n<p>#davidchoe #davidchoepodcast #thechoeshow<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DMNkQnBl2ao\">Video Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this episode of The Choe Show, David Choe stages a volatile meditation on what it means to live as an artist when the very identity of \u201cartist\u201d becomes both salvation and prison. Speaking with the urgency of someone oscillating between confession and performance, Choe exposes the psychic and physical costs of his craft: carpal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1974074,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25180],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1974073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videos"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1755853020_maxresdefault.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1974073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1974073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1974073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1974074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1974073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1974073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1974073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}