Land scape
Spyros Kouvaras
CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW
experience. But it is not that simple; Personally, I don ' t believe in art as a « happening ». The thing is not just to get out and perform; the thing is to focus on the emotional response and perception of particular socio-spatial context in which an art work in public could be placed. And also, I believe that public art projects will be most effective when they will be part of a larger, holistic, multidisciplinary approach to enlivening a city or neighborhood. Only in this way, public art can contribute both to community life and to the service and vitality of public spaces.
As you have remarked once, your approach consists on a mechanistic approach of movement using at the same time the body as a canvas, as an abstract surface, so that the movement can be in the image and the movement can vibrates the image: how would you define the notion of body in your practice? In particular, do you think that personal experience is an absolutely indispensable part of a creative process? Could a creative process be disconnected from direct experience?
I believe that there are autobiographical elements in most of my works even if sometimes that happens subconsciously. They are just elements, we are our experiences of course, but that doesn ' t mean that a