Here I can explain some things people recently or a while ago said about my way of working.
Democratic: Carol mentioned that my way of working deals with the definition of democratic. I think she
mentioned that I do believe that everyone and everything has an intrinsic valid content.
For the exhibition:
We can guide a certain content a bit more by putting some certain people together. Perhaps it is my
contribution to let feel everybody at ease and install some parameters to be able to spin around.
But from there I would like to give everyone space for action and dialogue.
Anarchy: Someone once called my works anarchic works. There I think he mend that my work is reasonable
direct and that it doesn’t like to explain itself to much. The work repositions the hierarchic order temporary. I
tried often to free an image in it’s normal habitat to be able to reflect it’s position.
Acupuncture: Liu Gang, my first assistant here in Beijing named my work acupuncture. Don’t know if that is
common to say in China but I felt pleased with it. Because it makes sense to the fact that I don’t really
believe in the mono- or in one-directional activities. I do believe that an image is not at all about delivering a
statement-image. All of you have that same kind of idea I think. Although the one deals more with the
reality of force in our profession or in our private lives.
female/male: A Photographer once told me that he saw a nice combination in my work of female an male
approach. This in the way of dealing with addressing the content of things. I liked that because I do believe
that there is no direction in life. We just float and we have to accept that. That is one reason for me not to
believe. Not to believe in anything. That is also a reason why I sometimes publish things with ‘Auto’ (it is my
unofficial publication house).
But that said we cannot ignore that we are here together with others and communicate. We should be able to
formulate our entity from time to time to be able to leave it again. We can show some other hierarchy or
ways in thinking and acting and we have to.
Being careful careless would be a perfect way of being although I’m not able to, ha!
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thank you, reinaart, for more detailed updates! i try now actually to see if the comment e-mail notification is working (the previous one did not work, now i try again…). i will add xiao ke as an author of this blog shortly… shall i add michael eddy and others as well?
Hi, i just make a test :)
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Just came across this just now, found the essay in many ways relevant to my work, and this particular bit, very much a continuation of the modifier ‘democratic’ which Carol Lu described of your work, and as well relevant to also space:
(taken from “Making the Invisible Visible: A City in Multiples and the Art of Multiplicity”, by Steven L. Bridges; full text here)