1 If you weren’t an artist, what else would you be?
I would be a football player. For my favourite team Borussia Moenchengladbach. They need some help at the moment.
2 Name 3 of your least favourite artists.
Savador Dali, Juan Miro, Peter Paul Rubens
3. Anytime, any place – which artist’s body would you most like to inhabit?
Grandma Moses.
4 What is your favourite ‘ism’?
Dadaism
5 What was the most intelligent thing that someone said or wrote about your work?
Oh, did your children do this?
6. And the dumbest?
It remembers me of the art of XXX….
7 Which artists would you most like to rip off, sorry, I mean appropriate as a critique of originality and authorship?
Saul Steinberg
8 Do you care what your art costs? State your reasons!
Oh yes! It’s so nice to hear : “Oh. I can’t afford you.”
9 What are the three big ideas that you would like your work to express?
Long live the doodle! Make it like something has gone wrong. Never underestimate a bad painting.
10 Are you a political artist?
Oh yes! People unite!
11 How do you start the process of making work?
I google and find out what others have done before.
12 What next?
I copy the best idea.
13 If Moma and the Tate and the Pompidou wanted to acquire one of your works each, which would you want them to have?
A nice big one.
14 Complete the following sentence “Blessed art the artists, for they shall……”
…live like in heaven.”
15 Complete the following sentence “Blessed are the curators, for they shall…”
…dance for the artists.”
16 Complete the following sentence “Blessed are the art critics, for they shall….”
…organize the music for the dance.”
17. What is your favourite cheese?
Vacheron
18. What’s next for you?
My book project. Top secret.
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