Though the sculptures are static, the mind of the viewer charges along vectorial paths to search out associations, depicted and implied. Like the [mathematical] equation there is unity, balance, and a captivating logic that holds the viewer on a course of discovery.
James Reineking, Physical Lines of Thought
— Michael H. Smith
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Ich freue mich, das Museum samt Park umzugraben. Uns im Museum in eine ›abseitige Unterwelt‹ zu führen. Ganz nah den vergessenen Gräbern tief in der Erde werden wir plötzlich wieder auf die Welt geworfen. Wir werden uns in den Armen liegen, wieder tief Luft holen. Was für ein toller Park. Wie schön ist unser Leben.
— Gregor Schneider; an Heiner Goebbels
Was die Ruhrtriennale auszeichnet, sind die Wechselwirkungen zwischen Künstlern und Räumen. Sie ermöglichen uns starke künstlerische Erfahrungen und haben für mich oberste Priorität; wo sonst hat man die Freiheit, kompromisslos etwas entstehen zu lassen. Viele festivalmachende Kollegen und Künstler aus aller Welt beneiden uns aber nicht nur um die unverwechsel- baren Räume und die Möglichkeiten, Kunst selbst produzieren zu können, sondern auch um unser Publikum, das großen Eindruck hinterlässt durch seine Neugierde, Offenheit, künstlerischen Wagemut und seine direkte Resonanz.
— Heiner Goebbels
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My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.
Love is to be reinvented, that is clear.
sqq. Niklas Luhmann im Gespräch mit Alexander Kluge
There is no solution, because there is no problem.
— Marcel Duchamp
Identities are formed at the unstable point where personal lives meet the narrative of history. Identity is an ever-unfinished conversation.
When you watch my movies, please don't speculate. Just trust your eyes and listen to your heart.
That's why I'm talking to you. You are one of the rare people who can separate your observation from your preconception. You see what is, where most people see what they expect.
I am eternally, devastatingly romantic, and I thought people would see it because romantic doesn't mean sugary. It's dark and tormented — the furor of passion, the despair of an idealism that you can't attain.
I've always rejected being understood. To be understood is to prostitute oneself. I prefer to be taken seriously for what I'm not, remaining humanly unknown, with naturalness and all due respect.
The problem is no longer getting people to express themselves, but providing little gaps of solitude and silence in which they might eventually find something to say. Repressive forces don't stop people from expressing themselves, but rather, force them to express themselves. What a relief to have nothing to say, the right to say nothing, because only then is there a chance of framing the rare, or ever rarer, the thing that might be worth saying.
We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them.
