I felt there were millions of artists who were making there marks, and i sort of felt the abstract expressionist said it all with abstract art in a way… I wanted to see what would happen if i was the artist who did not make my mark. I let something [the material] tell me something I did not know… It was a matter of giving up control.
– Helène Aylon, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Richard Serra – Why Make Art?
So I think works of art engage, possibly, an internal memory bank that isn’t linear and it can make you see the outside reality in that way also… You can just go through the history of art that way and immediately you conjure up something that you yourself could not express, and fulfilled in each of us something we lack.
– Richard Serra, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Richard Serra – On Velázquez’s technique
I wanted the viewer to become the subject of his own experience.
– Richard Serra. On Velázquez’s technique
No-one else can hear the world like you can when you put those headphones on
With nearly all wildlife and natural history work it’s a solitary process. You can’t talk about it when you’re recording, you’ve just got to move the microphones and do it. In that sense there’s an easy analogy with photography. It’s a solitary activity. I then like going through the process of selection, editing, composition, production, performance, whether it’s a radio broadcast or a sound installation, which you then share with as many people as you can to engage with them. I really like that idea of going from the point source.
– Chris Watson On Recording The Music Of The Natural World
https://soundcloud.com/caughtbytheriver/chris-watson-stormbeach-1
Stormbeach: A sound-work by Chris Watson, recorded on location on Orford Ness in response to the Stormbeach chapter in Robert Macfarlane’s The Wild Places.
Obsolete Skin
Skin has become inadequate in interfacing with reality. Technology has become the body’s new membrane of existence.
Nam June Paik
Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art: A Sourcebook of Artists’ Writings
By Kristine Stiles, Peter Howard Selz
Reproduction Quote
We live through the medium of reproduction.