Interview with Q21 Artist-in-Residene Guy Wouete
Teilen - Facebook Teilen - Twitter Interview with Artist-in-Residence Guy Wouete My first question is kind of a meta question: How would you define art? Guy: Art! I mean, in my language (Bandrefan) there is [...] suspicious of me or how I feel in certain situations on the street or at home or somewhere else. That is kind of a starting point for me. I have to feel something; I have to be touched by an idea or an object [...] what I tried to ask you, as an observer you need a special mindset. Yes! It is very important and kind of a life-long process. Learning to see, learning to really observe and being awake. Observing is
„Die Sache selbst wird durch das Nahetreten etwas zeigen“ - MuseumsQuartier Wien
Und wohl zum Fürchten auch der Radiodieb, der in der Anstalt über das Kind zu wachen hatte. Dabei liebte das Kind den Kindermann. Jahre später weiß es die Frau ganz genau.“ Ist es eine Frage des Mutes [...] vor. Mit ihr verbindet mich eine langjährige Zusammenarbeit. Dieses Kind in den langen Gängen… Es ist ja nicht nur im MuseumsQuartier so, dass Wien mit seinen Bauten außerordentlich martialisch erscheint [...] vor allem eines: Unmündigkeit. Welchen Zusammenhang gibt es zwischen “Partikel vom Großgesichtigen Kind” und der TONSPUR 63 beim „MQ Summer of Sounds“ ? Diese Arbeit ist im Zusammenhang meiner Beschäftigung
Warren Neidich: Breaking the Noise Barrier - MuseumsQuartier Wien
more artificial- a kind of mental reification. As such these two forms of memory simultaneously engage the mind’s eye and compete for being in consciousness. As such they create a kind of recursive schisis [...] strategies to investigate the role of the photographic archive in the sculpting of collective memory or museum archive. The work also challenged the positivist accounts of the role of technology as a space for [...] of culture, the conditions of something happening in the brain or both? Was this phenomena the same kind of reaction that people had to John Cage’s work 4 minutes and 33 seconds the first time they encountered
“The art world really is stupid in a way…” - MuseumsQuartier Wien
actually affecting our society. And how do you see yourself within the art world, which can also be kind of hypocritical? Yeah [laughs] – I don’t know. The art world really is stupid in a way, so there isn’t [...] rationality, any intelligence, it’s driven by a lot of private interest of different sorts. But it’s also kind of chaotic, it’s not like a government or a big company, which is very well structured. Of course [...] Yeah, I believe in people; that in the end, the filter is people. I mean, there are also the big museums or the big collectors that push certain artists because they have commercial interests, and these
“After Gezi I think I know what to write and I do not know what to do.” - MuseumsQuartier Wien
modern Bulgarian literature without understanding French or Russian symbolism I would only feel like a kind of tourist, an outsider who is looking at things and passing them by unable to ask the true questions
"I am very impatient. That's why I make these patient films." - MuseumsQuartier Wien
to the top of the dome at the museum’s entrance. The idea was to displace the sounds from one museum space to another, in this case to the TONSPUR_passage at MuseumsQuartier. It’s both an extension and a [...] the Natural History Museum will be presented in the TONSPUR_passage under the title INFINITE DISPLACEMENT. What will we hear? I made an hour long recording at the Natural History Museum where I had full access [...] would you choose? Well I already got the chance to film in the Natural History Museum. To get access to that building was kind of a once in a lifetime experience. The film has little movement, just two people
“Go for the big elements, try to combine them.” - MuseumsQuartier Wien
me a fast reflection of my thoughts, which other media won’t. It’s constructive, yes. So there’s a kind of connection to architecture maybe. What you do, art critics call “modern collage”. The technique [...] Was it too trivial? Probably. They saw nothing but a work of children in it, but for me it was a kind of personal exploration. Suddenly it became en vogue. Also, I guess that many young artists think
"A frame is never just a frame." - MuseumsQuartier Wien
on that same empty wall. I think that it’s basically not possible not to belong to a group. It’s kind of hard to find an identity if no one recognizes your identity. That is what I try to visualize. The [...] curated by Bogomir Doringer in support of Brigitte Felderer at freiraum quartier21 INTERNATIONL / MuseumsQuartier Wien. #faceless Workshop "lookalike" with Marco Pezzotta (ITA) Date: Saturday, October 26, 2013
Theo-Mass LEXILEICTOUS on superpowers - MuseumsQuartier Wien
scared. So I had some kind of weird interactions with some organizations. I did many extreme and extraordinary things during my appearances, but it was part of the story. What kind of extreme things? When [...] as spectacles. At the moment I’m dealing with social networks, 3D technologies, galleries, and museums . The next episode, “#themutantreturns,” will be presented in spring 2014, most probably in Los Angeles
Rebel rebel, Yuths! - MuseumsQuartier Wien
kids. I was always the odd one out, doing things you shouldn’t do. I was very quiet, but I had this kind of character. Rebel Yuths in his studio, Photo: Eva Ellersdorfer-Meissnerová So what about your rebellion [...] that are not like the everyday things we know. You can see that in my work. It’s quite different from kind of fashion someone studying at Saint Martin’s might create. I try to do something else, inspired by