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interview with kurt johannessen

29.08.2014


Q: Why / when / how did you start to work with performance, what is your background, how did you arrive at doing performance?

I started working with performance after a period where I worked with sculpture. In working with sculpture I found that to make the work was most interesting, the prosess, to create.

Q: What is your process like when you make a performance, from idea to actual work?


I often sketch, often only simple pictures and situations, and gradually it can form into a performance. Often it is not finished until the actual performance.

Q: Can you tell about your latest project
?


My last work is created in the same process as above mentioned. In fact it is a small sketch of a small situation, I made this drawing many years ago, and at last it found a setting. I work a lot with paper, small glass containers, seeds. These materials, and others, bind the different performances together.

Q: What role does performance art have in your life / artistic praxis. Do you also work within other fields, like installation, sculpture, drawing, other expressions. How do they influence / inform each other?

I do other work and performance influences other work, and other work influences my performance.

Q: With what kind of form / material do you express yourself and use in your work and how did you arrive at using this material?

I use the material as mentioned above. I also have been using dead flies in my performance work. I arrived at this material because I was into small things, unimportant and important small things
.

Q: How do you experience or consider the audience / surrounding. What space / surrounding do you find interesting to work in. How does your surrounding influence your work. Do you involve the public? If so how?


Sometimes I contact the audience, by giving them something, or being close to them. I like different kinds of rooms, all rooms have got different qualities.


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