Doubt tempers belief with sanity.
I’m an artist who works with pictures and words. Sometimes that stuff ends up in different kinds of sites and contexts which determine what it means and looks like.
I’m living my life, not buying a lifestyle.
It’s a small world, but not if you have to clean it.
Money talks. It makes art. It determines what food we eat, whether we are cured or die, and what shoes we wear.
I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work.
We are obliged to steal pieces of language, both visual and textual.
I’ve always been very tied to language.
Memory is your image of perfection.
Direct address has been a consistent tactic in my work, regardless of the medium that I’m working in.
Things change and work changes. Right now I like the idea of enveloping a space and getting messages across that connect to the world in ways that seem familiar but are different.
You want it, you buy it, you forget it.
The reason why bookstores are going out of business in the States is that people just can’t focus on longer narratives now – even narrative film is in crisis in many ways, unless it’s an adventure film.
What makes the production of my work so expensive? The whole installation thing – the construction, the objects, the technology. It really adds up.
Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways.
As with the Princess Di crash, which sent the media on the most insane feeding frenzy. From the moment of the crash, the pornography of sentiment never let up.
Prominence is cool, but when the delusion kicks in it can be a drag. Especially if you choose to surround yourself with friends and not acolytes.
Teaching at university isn’t like teaching in an art school.
The different aspects of my activity, whether it’s writing criticism, or doing visual work that incorporates writing, or teaching, or curating, is all of a single cloth, and I don’t make any separation in terms of those practices.
What I’m trying to do is create moments of recognition...