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I'm not a preacher, but I preach. I'm not a Buddhist, but I chant. I'm not race theorist, but I have questions and ponderances around the complexities of race and class and culture wherever I am.
There were a series of moments when I decided that art was important, and it was an important vehicle for me to express my interest in spaces.
I have the willingness to think fully about where opportunities are and where they live.
All kinds of performance practices have a certain register of power or solemnity.
I actually no longer use 'art' as the framing device. I think I'm just kind of practicing things, practicing life, practicing creation.
It's really exciting to know that people want to use the house as a house and want to live there although it hasn't been a used, occupied space in 50 or 60 years.
What I think museums do very well is that they say to a public, "We have some stuff that's worth looking at."
I think I'm passionately allowing myself to be influenced by the things that are around me.
Everything is raw material to me. Land is raw material ... I take one form and transform it into other forms.
I want to spend my time between the creation of ideas and the creation of things.
If we imagine that the only right that we have is to make commodifiable objects, then we limit our practice, and we limit the great potential for an understanding between collectors, curators and galleries.
My first experience with the creative was mopping tar. If you let the tar sit, it can get cold pretty quickly. And because the mops are so heavy, you've got to dip it and then ride it really fast.
The fact that the work is affirmed by the Museum of Contemporary Art I think sends continued signals that this is worth paying attention to, looking at, and understanding.
Modernism was influenced by what they call a primativist ethic.
The reason artists want to have works in museums is that we want our works to be seen by as many people as possible and we want our ideas to be understood in more complicated ways.
I sometimes am challenged to imagine where the timbre of art should be. Should it be about objects that point to this current moment, or how objects are related to ideas of this current moment?
