CIR.CUM.BEND.I.STUFF
Chris Beale
The artist is the origin of the work. The work is the origin of the artist.
We tend to think of art-making as a one way process, the creator-subject making the object; but artist and artwork are interdependent, locked in a reciprocal relationship. Art changes me, it creates who I am, and gives back in equal proportion to what I put into it. Live art performance is the arena where I experience this most vividly.
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When I work with a material, I have this urge to get right inside the material, to immerse myself in it.
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In Jewish legend, golems are volatile semi-human creatures made out of clay into which life has been injected by men with special powers. As soon as I start to think about creating such a creature, I want to become one, too.
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"On the usual view, the work arises out of and by means of the activity of the artist. But by what and whence is the artist what he is? By the work... The artist is the origin of the work. The work is the origin of the artist. Neither is without the other."
Martin Heidegger, The Origin of the Work of Art, 1950
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