Question Three

When different people gather around the same idea or form, the outcome is more than the sum of their minds. A so-called third mind comes into play. According to William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin, this third mind does things that none of the single brains would have come up with. How important are collaboration and (audience) participation to you? How do other people and other worlds become part of your work? How do you create a third mind?

Question Four

According to Gilles Deleuze, the encounter between two disciplines doesn’t take place when one begins to reflect on one another, but when one discipline realizes that it has to resolve, for itself and by its own means, a problem similar to one confronted by the other. What art forms and disciplines other than your own do you feel close to? Do you incorporate strategies or practices from other disciplines, sciences or domains of society?

Question Five

Do you have certain rituals or methods to help crystalize and materialize your ideas and intuitions into artworks, texts or designs? In preparation for your work, do you take photographs, do you make drawings or schemas, take notes, build models and so on?

Question Six

In 1911, Henri Matisse painted his studio as a visual manifesto of his art practice. The clock in the background and the circular composition testify to the continuous making and remaking of his art. Do you learn through making? Imagine falling into an amnesiac state. Would this state be a blessing or a curse for your future work?

Question Seven

How do you know that a work is finished? Are you in need for (self-imposed) deadlines? Do you experience your time at work as a continuous process or are there frequent ups and downs, moments of despair and enlightenment? Do you recall certain moments or specific works that became models of thought afterwards?