A: As Gilbert and George say, ‘To be with art is all we ask.
’ I mean that’s
really the most serious answer I can give.
But art is a very multidimensional thing, so I cannot give only one ans
wer. As in
quantum physics, there are parallel realities in art. One of the dimensions or models
is a toolbox, a nonfunctional and ambiguous toolbox. Art is an
tennas. ‘Art is art and
everything else is everything else.’ — I think that’s Ad Reinhardt. Ar
t is a great home
base to venture from. It is impossible to say what art is bec
ause art always changes
what we expect from it — that would be another sort of dimension. Art is the reason
to get up in the morning. Art is the reason not to go to sleep.