Methods of Art – Archive of Artists Interviews

J: I hate speaking so personally about it but that is the only way to speak about this project, being an
individual to learn. And that sounds really naive and simple but it’s to learn individually, to learn
collectively, to learn and change and to continually learn how things function. Why people behave
the way they do, why institutions function the way they do. Why the art world is functioning the way
it does. I think that is often unspoken but intention number one, if we had to do a prioritized list, is to
learn. And on a bad day, I have to remind myself that is why we’re doing this and that I am learning
and that my intentions are being fulfilled. And those intentions are not a target or an object it’s just a
question, are you learning? And the answer is usually yes.
A: I guess I would have to say almost the opposite as well. Like, I love learning but I love de-learning
probably just as much. And I think that it is something that is completely necessary and people
definitely don’t give it enough credit that it is important to forget all of these weird structures that
you have built up from all of these other experiences and assess them in another side of the world
that you can live in, which I think is what the school does for me.

BHQFU / Intention

Bio

* BHQFU is New York City’s freest art school and community space offering a full curricula of critique courses,studio residencies, and special events. The educational programming is enriched by a rigorous exhibition series at the university gallery launched in 2015, FUG. BHQFU was founded in 2009 by The Bruce High Quality Foundation, it represents an alternative educational model that treats artistic knowledge as distinct from professional practices, as a knowledge born from conversations between artists and the histories they make together. BHQFU is a 501(c)3 organisation and is completely free for all students. In the interview: Andrea Arrubla and Joe Kay, BHQFU Staff March, 2015

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Credits

The interview was conducted on March 7 2015 at SPRING BREAK Art Show, skylight at Moynihan Station, New York City.

Interviewed by: Johannes M. Hedinger

Filmed and recorded by: Konstanze Schuetze

Edited by: Paul Barsch

Transcript by: Lea Hoßbach, Ella Tetrault

Produced by: University of Cologne (Cologne), Institut für Kunst&Kunsttheorie