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Women Cinemakers because I don’t understand it completely. I believe that the power here is to accept that you can’t fully understand it and to trust the processes this might bring. It is strange but it works so well for me… honestly it is a huge liberation because suddenly something makes sense, even though I am not exactly sure why. It might sound a little hippie what I am saying, but it is something very profound to learn to let go of intellectual control and I believe that this is an essential part to Art. Many artists express the ideas that they explore through representations of the body and by using their own bodies in their creative processes, as you did in the stimulating , that can be viewed at . German visual artist Gerhard Richter once underlined that " ": how do you consider the relation between the ideas you explore and of creating your artworks?
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The physical Act is a tool for the abstract to express itself. There are issues with physical formalisms that must be addressed like the quality if the image and sound, special equipment, planning etc. These are all technicalities that if not taken into account seriously will not reach the precise translation of the image. The work that carries unnecessary ‘noise’ disrupts the viewers reading of the piece. This is why technicalities and structures are as important as the idea, if not more. It is through the physical construction that you can access profoundly the layers of these abstract places and ideas. Without the physical process perhaps we wouldn’t even be able to recognize the extension of this idea. In Territorial Burden the physicality appears opposite to the way it does in Re-Space. In Re-Space I constructed an audio-visual device for the Body of the viewer, in Territorial Burden it is through my body literally that the viewer can confront themselves with an idea. Me peeing on the floor continuously of a white cube confronts the viewer to their abject relationship to bodily fluids and the sterilized status quo of contemporary architecture. Here I talk about space in terms of our necessity to occupy space, because firstly without space we cannot exist. But occupying space, although inherent to the human condition, is