Art colonises me

Artur Zmijewski on how he perceives his role as stage-manager of his own filmed participatory workshop:

‘the situation is that the art catches up with me, it tells a story, colonises me, says “this is art”. I am an artist because I operate in the field of art. That’s where I’m most active and most fulfilled; that’s where I’ve been given a place to speak from and that’s from where I’m heard. So if I was to say why this is art, I’d say it’s precisely because it catches up with me, claiming what I do.’

Double Agent, curated by Claire Bishop and Mark Sladen, 2008, ICA, London, catalogue p. 101

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