This is a Slinkachu' s interview about some public art's topics:
"Why did you decide to work in “public space” and what does “public” mean to you?
Public spaces allow freedom to do what I want, within reason. Anyone can utilise public spaces to create art, whereas not everyone can get in to a gallery to display their work. Also the message and its context differs – finding art unexpectedly in a public space can be a surprise and the art can talk differently to its audience (and often to a different audience) that way..." follows in comments
"Why did you decide to work in “public space” and what does “public” mean to you?
Public spaces allow freedom to do what I want, within reason. Anyone can utilise public spaces to create art, whereas not everyone can get in to a gallery to display their work. Also the message and its context differs – finding art unexpectedly in a public space can be a surprise and the art can talk differently to its audience (and often to a different audience) that way..." follows in comments
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Why did you decide to work in “public space” and what does “public” mean to you?
Public spaces allow freedom to do what I want, within reason. Anyone can utilise public spaces to create art, whereas not everyone can get in to a gallery to display their work. Also the message and its context differs – finding art unexpectedly in a public space can be a surprise and the art can talk differently to its audience (and often to a different audience) that way.
In your opinion, what explains the increased tendency over the last thirty years, to work in public contexts? What are your needs when you work in this context?
I think a desire for an artist’s work to be seen by a wide audience that doesn’t rely on the confines of a gallery, or the art establishment. I think that there is a desire to create art in almost everyone too – creating art in public is often easy and allows spontaneity. Public spaces are just that; Public. And they offer anyone chances to anyone to create art. Personally, my work comments on its environment and the issues associated with that environment. Often people won’t see my installations because they are so small, but that in itself is part of the fun of using a public space. I love the idea that people will look out for my work but never find it, or stubble upon it and wonder why on earth it is there. I also love the textures and shapes that public areas offer and use these in my photographs.
In your opinion, which are the connotations of the relation between the artist who decides to act into public space and the public space itself? What is your experience about it?
For my work, which is pretty ephemeral, I find it cathartic that I can leave behind work that will most probably get destroyed under foot or by a road sweeper. I think that there is a sense of danger and excitement about producing unauthorised art in public too that must turn a lot of graffiti and street artists on.
How important is camouflage in your work? How important is the dialectic between visible and invisible in your work’s strategies in the public context?
For me, camouflage is important as I want my work to be hard to find. I think the themes of being invisible in a big city are interesting too and something that a lot of street artists are interested in. My work lives on on the net though so I know it won’t go completely unseen, just seen in a different context.
How important is the spectator in the realization of your public projects? What do you want to communicate with your work?
The spectator is important, but the way my pieces work on the net too means that I am almost considering two different spectators when I make a piece and photograph it. People have seen my work online and recognised the area it was placed and gone out to take or look at the little people there. I love that kind of interaction. But I also like to imagine that unsuspecting people stumble across my pieces sometimes and think “What the fuck!?!” I guess I want to surprise people, get them to look around themselves a bit more and reconsider the city. I want to add back a small sense of wonder that I think people loose as they get older.
Slinkachu
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