interview with a chair (2019)Video, 17m25s.
The artist and an empty chair discuss current issues of art and art making. In this conversation, however, it’s not speech but silence the protagonist. The neutral element of the chair in the space of an interview frustrates all expectations of subjective investigation from this mode of inquiry. Instead, by not participating in the binaries that structure dialectics, the dialogue challenges the expected common ground expected of a conversation. Speech does not pass from one speaker to another, but rather, speech and silence alternate sequentially and it is actually this exchange that promotes understanding and creates meaning in this conversion. One more puzzling than the expected extraction of knowledge, at least.
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