Leeds Beckett University - City Campus,
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The artist is trying to talk about their artwork.
It is not easy, because this is art.
Some time ago the artist chose to have a relationship with the world through sounds, images, forms and materials, rather than having to keep talking about things. Although they do also like the act of trying to talk about what they make. Sometimes the words seem to lead somewhere close to the heart of the work, and sometimes they go off in a totally different direction. It's quite unruly. But these difficulties serve to catalyse new perspectives on the artist's practice. The artist learns from all the talking and they also usually find that it just feels pretty good to look back at the piles of dismantled artwork that were added to the words to make them vibrate better. And the audience sometimes seems to get something from all this too.
But nobody can be absolutely sure exactly what it is they receive from this situation and what they might, in return, be giving back.
And that uncertainty is possibly the best thing about this brief exchange between artist and audience.
