'Untitled' is a time machine that can transport you to 1992 an edgy moment when the art world was crumbling money was scarce and artists like Tiravanija were in the nascent stages of combining Happenings performance art John Cage Joseph Beuys and the do-it-yourself ethos of punk. Meanwhile a new art world was coming into being.
I think that the U.S. does have this very much more open attitude and I admire it very much and I think it's very important to the world. But the information and the discussion sometimes come too late after the effective decision has been made.
I want art to make me think. In order to do that it may piss me off or make me uncomfortable. That promotes awareness and change or at least some discussion.
People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand when it's simply necessary to love.
Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand as if it were necessary to understand when it is simply necessary to love.
An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
Any work of architecture that has with it some discussion some polemic I think is good. It shows that people are interested people are involved.
We are losing sight of civility in government and politics. Debate and dialogue is taking a back seat to the politics of destruction and anger and control. Dogma has replaced thoughtful discussion between people of differing views.
Discussion is an exchange of knowledge an argument an exchange of ignorance.
More and more couples are having this negotiation or discussion but I'm still amazed at the number who aren't and where the cultural norm sort of kicks in and they just assume that mom's got to be the one who stays home not dad.