Quotes by Sue Tompkins - Page 1

I probably protect myself by not asking myself too much.
Sue Tompkins / Visual Artist
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Protect
Too Much
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Performances have a bit of a life and a time scale to themselves.
Sue Tompkins / Visual Artist
Bits
Performances
Scales
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I'm one who needs to be in the space [for] a sense of place and order. It's crucial.
Sue Tompkins / Visual Artist
Space
Needs
Order
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I don't analyze too much, because then I'll question, 'Why do I write down all of these random little phrases?'
Sue Tompkins / Visual Artist
Littles
Phrases
Writing
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I started using Notes [on my iPhone] but I do a lot of hand written notes. It's a very slow, accumulative thing.
Sue Tompkins / Visual Artist
Hands
Iphone
Notes
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I'm not really interested in making someone endure a performance or stand there for too long. I like to think about the length.
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Length
Long
Thinking
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I like actual songs and bands, but it's usually parts, like the production, the bassline, the drums, that I'm really attracted to.
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Band
Productions
Song
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Sometimes I start with music on and then I get distracted because I'm working to a different rhythm; I'm not working to myself. So, I don't have music on when I'm working.
Sue Tompkins / Visual Artist
Different
Rhythm
Sometimes
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Being on the same level as everybody is really important to me. I'm trying to do really basic stuff like communicate, convey, talk, see, and invite joining and intimacy. What I'm trying to do is attach. It's not about being separate.
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Important
Joining
Trying
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I've got a twin sister who's an artist and growing up I was always "the loud one." She's not actually quiet at all, but I would rather fill a gap with chatter and she would just let a gap be. So there was no inclination to actually perform.
Sue Tompkins / Visual Artist
Artist
Gaps
Growing Up
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When I go into the editing process, I re-look at the original intuitive thoughts and then it becomes the written performance or text work. Because they look quite big there's this assumption that there isn't much editing, but that's a huge part of it.
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Assumption
Editing
Looks
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I'm interested in really particular details, ideas, thoughts, and emotions, yet it's defused with performance, where you can play with hiding things, or be more confrontational about something shielded. There is this process of layering in performance.
Sue Tompkins / Visual Artist
Details
Ideas
Play
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The way I perform or the setup is always same - just me and a microphone and the text - and they usually have some relation of how physical that stack becomes. When I'm editing it together, the density of the papers is an indicator to be like, "You need to stop."
Sue Tompkins / Visual Artist
Editing
Needs
Together
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For me, there's the certain focus points that come out, which could reference a song or a pop disco, or something really abstract. It's not totally fulfilling or complete, but rather an ongoing incompleteness. I'm really interested in the audience's relationship with myself, and my relationship with them.
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Focus
Ongoing
Song
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I've thought about bands or performers who appear from nowhere: You come out of the greenroom in this secure little unit, then you do this thing and you're shielded from everybody. I'm thinking of brilliant people, like Mariah Carey, who have no interaction. They interact with the audience at the time of the live thing but there's no build up and there's no afterward.
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Band
People
Thinking
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