Danny Winkler & Emilia Loseva
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A sequence of stills from Twelve Haikus in Lethargy
During these years you have established a fruitiful collaboration... I personally find absolutely fascinating the collaborations that artists are capable of establishing together: could you tell us something about this effective synergy? an interview with By the way, the artist Peter Tabor once said that "collaboration is working together with another to create something as a synthesis of two practices, that alone one could not": what's your point about this? Can you explain how your work demonstrates communication between two artists?
Your work Twelve Haikus in Lethargy has been recently selected at the VIDEOHOLICA International Videoart Festival, Varna... it goes without saying that feedback and especially awards are capable of supporting an artist, I was just wondering if an award -or better, the expectation of an award- could even influence the process of an artist... By the way, how
important for you is the feedback of your audience? Do you ever think who will enjoy your Art when you conceive your pieces? DW: These works are not about communication.
DW: The synergy is as mysterious as the lack of synergy with another. It happens, it exists, just as the lemon tree exists, and why that exists it is not possible to explain.
objects to be found, picked up or discarded. As such, my concern is not with the audience. EL: And still it is a pleasure to know that there are a few individuals who “find” these “objects” and “pick” them up. It is true that we do these works for ourselves, not for communicating messages, but isn’t that what art should aim for – self-contained form and self-consistent subject matter?
EL: Obviously, as some artists-friends say, this is not an accident that we met and coincided. It really feels like being a lemon-tree. When we do works separately or with other people, the outcome is something different of course. When I work with other artists, I waste a lot of energy and often end up with disappointment – errors occur and you cannot change the outcome. Working with Danny is always rewarding in that sense that each idea is realised completely and there is nothing I would wish to change.
Thank you for your time and for sharing with us your thoughts. My last question deals with your future plans: what's next for you? Anything coming up for you professionally that you would like readers to be aware of?
EL: There is an upcoming book of translations of 20