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" All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary. "
History
Turn
Scary
" Direct address has been a consistent tactic in my work, regardless of the medium that I'm working in. "
Working
Consistent
Work
" Do you know why language manifests itself the way it does in my work? It's because I understand short attention spans. "
You
Know
Language
" I always say that I'm an artist who works with pictures and words, so I think that the different aspects of my activity, whether it's writing criticism, or doing visual work that incorporates writing, or teaching, or curating, is all of a single cloth, and I don't make any separation in terms of those practices. "
Work
Think
Criticism
" I believe that who we are, and consequently the work that we make, whether we're visual artists or writers or journalists or filmmakers, is a projection of where we were born, what's been withheld or lavished upon us, our color, our sex, our class. And everything we do in life to some degree is a reflection of that context. "
Reflection
Believe
Color
" I'd always been a news junkie, always read lots of newspapers and watched the Sunday morning news shows on TV and felt strongly about issues of power, control, sexuality and race. "
Race
Sunday
Control
" If most American cities are about the consumption of culture, Los Angeles and New York are about the production of culture - not only national culture but global culture. "
Los Angeles
New York
American
" I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work. "
Bring
World
How
" I have problems with a lot of photography, particularly street photography and photojournalism - objectifying the other, finding the contempt and exoticism that you might feel within yourself or toward yourself and projecting it out to others. There can be an abusive power to photography, too. "
Power
Photography
Yourself
" I just say I'm an artist who works with pictures and words. "
Pictures
Say
Artist
" I like suggesting that 'we are slaves to the objects around us,' that 'plenty should be enough,' or that the 'buyer should beware,' within the context of conventional selling space. "
Us
Space
Slaves
" I'm an artist who works with pictures and words. Sometimes that stuff ends up in different kinds of sites and contexts which determine what it means and looks like. "
Sometimes
Pictures
Like
" I mean, making art is about objectifying your experience of the world, transforming the flow of moments into something visual, or textual, or musical, whatever. Art creates a kind of commentary. "
Flow
World
Moments
" I'm living my life, not buying a lifestyle. "
Buying
Life
My Life
" I think I developed language skills to deal with threat. It's the girl thing to do-you know, instead of pulling out a gun. "
Think
Skills
Language
" 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'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level. "
Trying
Art
Life
" 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 modestly with eloquently moving results. "
Good
Think
Good Work
" I try to deal with the complexities of power and social life, but as far as the visual presentation goes I purposely avoid a high degree of difficulty. "
Try
High
Life
" It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized. "
Good
Practice
Mind
" I want people to be drawn into the space of the work. And a lot of people are like me in that they have relatively short attention spans. So I shoot for the window of opportunity. "
Work
Short
People
" Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not. "
Listen
Our
Know
" Look, we're all saddled with things that make us better or worse. This world is a crazy place, and I've chosen to make my work about that insanity. "
Work
Place
Look
" Money talks. It starts rumors about careers and complicity and speaks of the tragedies and triumphs of our social lives. "
Social
Our
About
" The reason why bookstores are going out of business in the States is that people just can't focus on longer narratives now - even narrative film is in crisis in many ways, unless it's an adventure film. "
Business
Adventure
Focus
" What makes the production of my work so expensive? The whole installation thing - the construction, the objects, the technology. It really adds up. "
Up
Construction
Work
" Women's art, political art - those categorisations perpetuate a certain kind of marginality which I'm resistant to. But I absolutely define myself as a feminist. "
Women
Political
Myself
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