Occupation: Artist Birth: January 26, 1945
I work with pictures and words because they have the ability to determine who we are, what we want to be and what we become..
I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work..
I feel uncomfortable with the term public art, because I'm not sure what it means. If it means what I think it does, then I don't do it. I'm not craz….
Photography has saturated us as spectators from its inception amidst a mingling of laboratorial pursuits and magic acts to its current status as prop….
Seeing is no longer believing. The very notion of truth has been put into crisis. In a world bloated with images, we are finally learning that photog….
I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that's how consensu….
I mean, making art is about objectifying your experience of the world, transforming the flow of moments into something visual, or textual, or musical….
I think there are lots of ways to make good work. You can throw big bucks at a project and make what some would call crap, or you can work very modes….
I see my work as a series of attempts to ruin certain representations and to welcome a female spectator into the audience of men. If this work is con….
But I really resist categories – that naming is a closing down of meaning. Women's art, political art – those categorisations perpetuate a certain ki….
What makes the production of my work so expensive? The whole installation thing - the construction, the objects, the technology. It really adds up..
You want it, you buy it, you forget it..
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..
Belief is tricky because left to its own devices, it can court a kind of surety, an unquestioning allegiance that fears doubt and destroys difference..
It's hard for me to understand how working-class people support themselves..
There are so many moments and works that influence us in what we do. Movies, music, TV and, most importantly, the profound everydayness of our lives..
The place of the arts in the classroom is essential in encouraging invention, ambition, and an understanding of the importance and pleasures of livin….
I think there are different ways of being rigorous, and I am asking people to be as rigorous in their pleasure as in their criticism..
I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I….
I think what I'm trying to do is create moments of recognition. To try to detonate some kind of feeling or understanding of lived experience..
Money talks. It makes art. It determines what food we eat, whether we are cured or die, and what shoes we wear..