Marina Abramovic stated: "I test the limits of myself in order to transform myself," she says, "but I also take the energy from the audience and transform it. It goes back to them in a different way. This is why people in the audience often cry or become angry or whatever. A powerful performance will transform everyone in the room." Can you relate to these words anyhow? How do you see the relationship between emotional and intellectual perception of your work? In particular, how much do you consider the immersive nature of the viewing experience?
I don't know if I test the limits of myself but of course, by practising Performance Art, I guess it transforms myself. But like all experiences in life....No less no more... Just maybe it's more “concentrated” as it happens in a defined time. can not say and I refuse to say that “a powerfull performance will transform everyone in the room”. How can we pretend that? I find this also very dangerous because it brings to think that everyone has the same kind of sensibility? I really hope that, execept the fact that we have in common the “human race”, we all are different and that each person react differently or receive differently a piece of art. And this is the beauty of what can happen in the context of a performance. How each person can sense what he/she see. And this i can't control. I hope I don't control. Otherwise it's a kind of manipulation, under my point of view
Multidisciplinarity seems to be a crucial aspect of your art practice and you seem to be in an incessant search of an intimate symbiosis between different disciplines: painting, music, design, photography…. While crossing the borders of different artistic fields have you ever happened to realize that a symbiosis between disciplines is the only way to achieve fullness of your expression? Have you noticed yourself patterns or motives that echoes in your artworks regardless the discipline?
Via Performance Art, i'm “progressing” in the field of visual art. And to be honest, sometimes i'm very jealous of all of them. I would like to be able to paint, to sculpt, to design,.... ( laugh)
to create a piece of art which is out of me and which is powerfull aesthetically... But until now I can't ;)... Then I work with my body and all which is coming to me. Sometimes I use some material but I can't think about this material as an aesthetical material... Of course I can slowly to see that some material or some forms are recurrent. For example, stones are coming back to me. I did some performances only with stones or some performance ( in Linz) which brought me to create an installation only with stones.... Or earth or water or fire or feathers, flowers... bout patterns, I can see also that the notion of “circle” is reccurent. Circle as a form of repetition as well as a way of moving or as a form I create with my body ( by turning around) or with the space ( circle space) or with some material ( balloon, round stone, sunflower) … about ecently I started also to use sounds or words ( what I refused for many years as I wanted to clean myself from my theater practise...)....
In Performance Art artists pick up from different disciplines, yes... Without master them sometimes... Maybe it's a way of transcending borders or daring fragility...
It is impossible to avoid the topic of body consciousness, embodied emotions and the image of body that we see on your drawings, which stays in real opposition to the images presented in mass media. What are the bodies appearing in your artworks – fragmented, languorous, lethargic…? What inspires you to such representations of the human body?
This is a good question... I'm not sure i'm able to reply properly... Maybe an art critic should be more able to speak about that?... ;)... But well let's try... My body is of course the “material” of my art work... A material which is alive... So of course this body means not only a physical body, but also a thinking body, an emotionnal body, a spiritual body...
Actually, in mass media, I have the feeling that the body is more conceived as a product. A product to identify, to charm, to sell... But what is behind the visible body?
The body carries in itself a series of traces of experiences, encounters, visible or not visible... And also the body is changing according to the space or to the material or the other body...
So... I don't have a specific representation of the human body... It depends of the place where I am to perform and to the subject or the material I explore during my action...
fact that we have in common the “human race”, we all are different and that each person react differently or receive differently a piece of art. And this is the beauty of what can happen in the context of a performance. How each person can sense what he/she see. And this i can't control. I hope I don't control. Otherwise it's a kind of manipulation, under my point of view
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