FIFTEEN CONVERSATIONS

Essential exchanges

The interlocutor’s foreword / 9

Jan Fabre: This is something I have had to learn as an artist, to say: that’s it… / 11

Jeroen Chabot: I thought that we should focus on the fundamentals of how people are going to earn their money / 27

Samanta Schweblin: As a writer, you write not about what is, but about what could be / 41

Victor de Munck: Culture doesn’t exist in any real sense, but we act as though it does / 53

Ernesto Spinelli: You are turning psychotherapy into something that is meant to improve people’s lives. I don’t make that my aim / 73

Vladimir Tarasov: I am talking about that connection, that there is something that protects you... / 89

Vivian Sjóðklett: I don’t explain to women how to relax in bed / 117

Roza Džamaldi: Now I realise with even greater clarity that the spirit determines everything / 139

John Cumming: There should be heated discussions about how classical music performances can be made more attractive / 159

Marina Abramović: It is possible to tap into the boundless universal energy constantly ripping through your body / 183

Omar Pérez: This is how I get closer to the source—free and pure… / 199

Mario von Kelterborn: It is not necessary to understand every piece, it is enough to enjoy it / 215

Fred Jeremy Seligson: I look through the eyes of an ancient person and notice things that others miss / 229

Vladimir Chekasin: Nominalization doesn’t help you learn anything / 243

Slava Ganelin: Music is not abstract at all / 261