art has a very long history in investing
its
focus on how to touch people in ways
that makes a difference for them
introducing criticism questions about
not how i do things but why i do things
why do we do everything
i was fortunate to grow up in an
environment where culture was a part of
everyday life
my father was an artist and when he was
painting
i would look at him and i would say well
i might not like the painting i'm
interested in why he's so
happy when he paints and then i realized
well if i'm going to make art i want to
see if i can take what my father felt or
why he was so certain of what he was
doing and if i can connect that with
what we call the art institution
making art
you're very focused on
who are you working for
are you making decisions on behalf of
somebody else
well no you're not because you're making
decisions
on behalf of the artistic project you're
working on
i grew very confident with this
potential that art has to be kind of
connected to the world producing reality
being a reality machine
and yet also criticize the world and be
let's say socially engaged in the world
i started working with
environments landscapes installation
much more immersive type of works where
you would walk in and you would start to
evaluate
what walking in would actually mean
art has the capacity
to verbalize
something that you feel but have yet not
verbalized yourself
my project is for me not necessarily all
synchronized they're not necessarily
also agreeing and sometimes some of my
approaches have fights within themselves
because they say oh you cannot do like
this and then also do like this the
truth is that in front of a work of art
i think we can create a space in which
you can be together or you can share
ideas without having to agree
this means you can be singular and
plural at the same time this is how we
would want democracy to look like
i think making models is the first stage
of bringing an idea into life
an idea is not a work of art it's really
not about anything yet very often people
say oh you know i had this idea is that
a great work of art and i said no it's
an idea about a great work of life
and then from there of course we need to
also to understand well what is the
context
is the meaning in this no it's not the
meaning is in the conflict or in the
sort of celebration between this
and society
the artistic potential is not in the
object as such it is in the way that the
object produces reality
in a society where you feel that the
political system is ignoring you maybe
one can take artistic potential and push
it into the field of environmental
awareness building or access to energy
such as the little sun project i'm
working on
it's actually a little lamp an led and
it has a solar panel on the back in here
i have five hours of sunlight i can take
that with me home tonight and in the
evening i can use the sun from today
later tonight and that is pretty much
the story
it turns out that every fifth person in
the world has no access to energy
in places such as africa
they have the same needs the same
desires that we have it's not about
us being different than them it's about
what we share
i think a lot about you know connecting
the past and the future because i think
i'm understanding slowly that
what really constitutes now and my self
is very much the sequence of things
from the perspective of the future what
is the world in 50 years from now
the path is really what makes the
difference
you