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C o n t e m p o r a r y A r t R e v i e w
Leonid Dutov
Special Issue
audience reception as being a crucial component of your decision-making process, in terms of what type of language is used in a particular context?
As I said earlier, audience is very important for me in general. It makes no difference whether they will accept my work or not, but it is essential for me to understand why they accept or reject it. And it does not have to be a verbal response.
Thanks a lot for your time and for sharing your thoughts, Leonid. Finally, would you like to tell us readers something about your future projects? How do you see your work evolving?
So far I have worked on 10-15 new projects a year, some of them, due to the specifics of my approach, would be left for the next year, some of them were just weeded out, and some would become performed exercises. I do not focus on video only. For example, I had an installation, which once was exhibited and was supposed to become a part of a big Internet project, but then it just rotted away in the basement of organizers of that exhibition as even when disassembled it was a cube of one-by-one meter in size. It was the moment, by the way, when I made head or tale of the saying:“ to contaminate a friend’ s apartment with art”, which is a by-word with my friends, who are sculptors. This year I have carried out two photo projects, which I am going to transfer on paper next year. I also have a couple of longlasting projects on which I am currently working on and also projects, which I conceived a while ago and I am willing to carry out. But they require significant organizational expenses and financial investments, which currently outcome my resources. For example, one of them can be carried out only with a team of three members, at that, we have to make a series of trips, and although they can be short, but still they shall cover at least 10 countries from those in Africa to Canada.
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