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1 - Do you like art? Why/Why not?
yes.
the category of art is nebulous, though. sometimes i do installation stuff--that's "sound art"--if i use a piano, it's music. i don't really understand where the boundary is--no-one does really--so it's a matter of self-nomination more than anything else.
either way, while i prefer art more as something to do than as something to go look at, i get an enormous amount from seeing visual pieces, reading and listening...and "art" encompasses everything from painting to installation to text production to music...
2 - Does art serve any purpose to you? (can be abstract - e.g. visual pleasure, or objective - e.g. decoration) Why?
it's mostly a condensed expression of a process of making...so i tend to resist reducing art to a decorative function. i think of art as reprocessing the world, destabilizing meanings (so i am suspicious of, and tend not to like very much, representational art that stays too close to photography--photo realism is not that, curiously)...i suppose that function can be performed while hanging over a fireplace in some aristo-house--but it's better for more people to experience art in spaces that amplify rather than defeat the active characteristics of a piece.
3 - Do you make time in your life for art? How?
it's the main area i devote my time and energy to. whether the results work or not is another question.
4 - Tell us about your favourite kind of art or a favourite artist
i find sound endlessly interesting, and find ways of structuring it that other folk explore (but i may not have explored or know about) to be fascinating. so sound installations tend to be among my favorite forms of "art"---i like lots of artists and don't really think in terms of favorites.
5 - Do you care if there is art in your life or not? Why?
definitely. it inspires thinking.
6 - Where do you go to see art?
museyrooms, galleries, the street...
7 - Where would you like to see art? Where should art be seen, in your opinion?
i don't like museums really but am glad they exist. in an ideal world, art would not be quarantined in that way--but the problems are obvious, starting with conservation.
this all comes from the idea that there really shouldn't be a separation between "art" and the rest of life. art comes out of the every day and feeds back into it--it should be everywhere, i think.
8 - How important/significant is art to you?
well, see above. it's fundamental a way of being that issues into ways of doing. which extends to listening and seeing. it's a way of doing philosophy, of thinking in the world about the world.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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