Quotes by Tino Sehgal - Page 1

Attention is the material I work with.
Tino Sehgal / Artist
Attention
Materials
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Photographs are two-dimensional. I work in four dimensions.
Tino Sehgal / Artist
Dimensions
Four
Two
Photographs
Two-Dimensional
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I don't see myself as somebody who looks particularly good in photos.
Tino Sehgal / Artist
Photos
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I am for fetishisation! All of us have our favourite things, and they speak to us.
Tino Sehgal / Artist
Favourite
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What my work is about is, 'Can something that is not an inanimate object be considered valuable?'
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Valuable
Inanimate
Object
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I have this belief that if you have an idea, and you have to write it down to remember it, then it can't be a great idea.
Tino Sehgal / Artist
Great Idea
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Kids are very sensitive to the value system of their parents, and I just felt my parents were attaching too much importance, too much meaning, to things.
Tino Sehgal / Artist
Importance
Sensitive
Too Much
Attaching
Meaning
Value
Value System
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I wanted to do dance with the same seriousness as art was done and acknowledged, not with the entertainment factor that is always connected to theater and film.
Tino Sehgal / Artist
Art
Done
Entertainment
Seriousness
Art Done Always
Acknowledged
Art Always Done
Factor
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I want to bring back the human encounter into places where material things have a prime status. In a museum, you're supposed to look at things and not talk to other people.
Tino Sehgal / Artist
Material Things
Look People Talk
Talk
Look People Back
Bring
Encounter
Material
Museum
Places
Status
Supposed
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I'm not against the intergenerational function of the museum, I am not against its address or celebration of the individual, but I am against its continuous, unreflected-on celebration of material production.
Tino Sehgal / Artist
Celebration
Function
Continuous
Museum
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The nature of my work is my subjectivity meshed with other people's subjectivity. So there's a correspondence with that... Even if you write about me, it will reflect on you; everything is a kind of weird collaboration.
Tino Sehgal / Artist
Collaboration
Correspondence
People
Subjectivity
Writing
Reflect
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For the general public, my work is sometimes easier than a painting because there is someone addressing you; it can actually be a relief. What's interesting is the idea of a tourist randomly coming in and the experience they'll have.
Tino Sehgal / Artist
General Public
Painting
Relief
Addressing
Randomly
Tourist
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In preindustrial times, the idea of creating something was more related to your personality. Personality was something that you constructed; it's something you had to actively develop and work on. Now personality is something that you have.
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Related
Work Personality Your
Actively
Constructed
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A museum is like a valuing machine. Museums and the industrial society started at the same moment, and they're really tied into each other. They've been all about displaying objects and the kind of wealth that can be derived from objects and promoting that point.
Tino Sehgal / Artist
Objects
Promoting
Tied
Wealth
Derived
Displaying
Industrial
Museum
Valuing
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Material things are not helpful after a certain degree of saturation. So you turn to other products. I think that therapy is a product that can transform you. But why does it need to be packaged as a product? Why can't I work on myself with my friends and family?
Tino Sehgal / Artist
Helpful
Material Things
Products
Therapy
Family Work Myself
Certain Degree
Degree
Friends And Family
Material
Packaged
Product
Transform
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My work comes out of a deep psychological place, so it's not like I'm Object Man at home. Theoretically, I'm not against objects, but, personally, I'm not comfortable attaching myself to them - I don't seek them out. What you can say about my home is that it's not very ambitious.
Tino Sehgal / Artist
Psychological
Work Home Myself
Attaching
Seek
Object
Theoretically
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We package everything as a product so we can derive income from it. Then we can occupy ourselves with higher-order psychological lifestyle things. This is a very new issue. Money still matters, but other factors have joined the status game - like how interesting, how meaningful your work is.
Tino Sehgal / Artist
Factors
Income
Lifestyle
Meaningful
Psychological
Work Money Your
Derive
Joined
Occupy
Package
Status
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My father had to flee from what is today Pakistan when he was a child, and he became a manager at IBM, and any item of consumption he would acquire was a direct measurement of his success in life. But that same equation wasn't going to work for me - I was quite clear about that in my early teens.
Tino Sehgal / Artist
Acquire
Children
Consumption
Direct
Father
Ibm
Measurement
Pakistan
Teens
Life Success Work
Equation
Flee
Item
Manager
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As we get better at things, we need less people to produce the things we really need, but what do we do with the rest of the people? They have to be doing something, too, to buy from those few which are doing the really basic stuff, and so that's why we need to be continually producing new stuff.
Tino Sehgal / Artist
New Stuff
Produce
Better People New
Continually
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Because of this high status of the object in our culture, something has to be a thing. Live efforts are almost marginal. I think dance, for example, is just as much a thing, and I want for it to have the same status. I don't want it to be the thing that comes in the evening and is, like, the happy music.
Tino Sehgal / Artist
Evening
Happy Music
Efforts
For Example
Just As Much
Marginal
Object
Status
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Our culture is hung up on and overemphasises what can be derived from material objects. I think this is something quite new, over the past 200 or 300 years - that life has become about accumulating material wealth. The 21st century is not about accumulating material wealth like the 20th century. It's already eroding.
Tino Sehgal / Artist
Hung
Material Wealth
Objects
Wealth
Accumulate
Derived
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One often forgets that even if art is a very successful field in contemporary culture, there are still a lot of people alienated by it. Even if people don't fully understand where my work is coming from, at least there's somebody who looks kind of sane standing in front of you and politely engaging with you. People react.
Tino Sehgal / Artist
Art
Contemporary
Engaging
People
Sane
Standing
Successful
Alienated
Art Work Culture
Forgets
Work Art Culture
Fully
Politely
React
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As a culture or a civilisation, we are a bit juvenile; it's like 'Oh, I have all this power, whoa, this is so cool, I can transform the earth and I can produce all this wealth. But we're blinded by our success in a naive way. There's more to life, actually, and I think the sustainability issue is also helpful in reminding us about that.
Tino Sehgal / Artist
Blinded
Civilisation
Helpful
Juvenile
Naive
Produce
Reminding
Sustainability
Wealth
Life Cool Success
Transform
Whoa
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On a very, very basic level, I'm definitely pro market because with the market comes the idea of the individual and the idea of specialisation, and I personally like being an individual and choosing my interactions. I don't see culture moving away from that, like back to a farming society. You couldn't do that with the amount of people we have.
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Farming
Moving Away
Choosing
Interactions
Pro
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