Statements of Practice
On 1 January each year I take a quote from an artist or writer on art that has particular resonance for me at that time, and I post it to mark a moment in my thinking about art and my art practice, and to reflect on what has passed, and what continues to guide me.
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2012: I want to discover new ways of configuring the world, both the world outside and the world within.
2011: Artists, like philosophers, can help us interpret the world, but only organised and collective human agency can effect its actual change.
2010: An artist can be committed, but what does it mean to say that his art is committed? Commitment is not a category of art.
2009: Revolutionary urbanists will not limit their concern to the circulation of things, or to the circulation of human beings trapped in a world of things. They will try to break these topological chains, paving the way with their experiments for a human journey through authentic life.
2008: Conformist, rebellious, and even eccentric views are always a function of the social position [ … ] of the individual concerned.
2007: The realm of human interactions and its social context, rather than the assertion of an independent and private symbolic space.
2006: In a society which reduces people I’m working to celebrate their richness and complexity. I see this as a kind of cultural struggle.
2005: There is nothing specific, nothing particular about that spot; just an accumulation of experiences and memories. This is where you learn, in the street, that’s how you’re shaped.
