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Speaking of parts in your art that are more meant for the public and portraying
something, do you see yourself as more of a tool? Like A. Camus said The artist is
supposed to be a tool to portray something, otherwise it doesn’t matter
ell, my academic training and how I think about art making - most of
my writing comes from a lineage that sees the artmaker as kind of irrel-
evant. I’m not super invested in intention, but guess it’s something I’ll think
about and something I’ll look into if I’m looking into an artist’s work. I work
sometimes in theatre and have relatively robust training in theatre in some
ways, and I have an interest in theatre and the mechanics of it. Part of what’s
different for me - I don’t have a big investment in saying that theatre is good
versus performance… I think that’s a fake battle that people have drawn be-
tween theatre and performance art - it’s useless. But I’m interested in this
project because it’s going to be pretty theatrical in some ways – there’s a
script, essentially. I want it to be intimate, and I think that theatre can be inti-
mate without being this personal, confessional thing. I’m not inviting people
to come and read my diary with me, I’m inviting them to come see me think
through something.
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What do you wish people knew about
you?
don’t really want anyone to know
anything about me. I feel like for
me, when I make stuff it’s sort of just
for me in a lot of ways, like I’ve been
talking about the discussions I want
to start and whatever, but at the end
of the day it’s really just for me. It’s
something that I enjoy doing and I find
helpful for my own thinking.
I’m really suspicious of this celebrity
culture... I don’t want people to know
anything about me.
I
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I’m not interested in
achieving “normality”,
I think there is some
other productive work.
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