Robert Barry
Robert Barry
Robert Barryis an American artist. Since 1967, Barry has produced non-material works of art, installations, and performance art using a variety of otherwise invisible media. In 1968, Robert Barry is quoted as saying "Nothing seems to me the most potent thing in the world."...
ProfessionPerformance Artist
Date of Birth9 March 1936
two political-opinions world
I may have a lot of political opinions but it doesn't necessarily come into my work. I keep the two worlds separate.
long video looks
I didn't make videos for a long time because I hated the look of TV sets.
running home video
My videos rarely run longer than 20 minutes. They're made for private viewing in your home or specifically either that or for a gallery situation where you sit and look.
talking giving people
I usually, if I give a talk, I don't usually prepare anything. I just say - you know, I may stop talking by showing some video or slides of what I do but mainly I try to respond to what problems people have with my work.
memories grandparent grandfather
I didn't know my grandparents. They were - my grandfather - my maternal grandfather died when I was five. I have very little memory of him. All my other grandparents were dead by the time I was of any age to remember anything.
interesting style important
Developing your own style became something very interesting, very important to me.
nuts
I was always - I was a movie nut. I lived in the movies, really.
film made filmmaker
I was a filmmaker. I made movies. I made films. And I always took photos and made films, always from the beginning.
father kids littles
I made films from the - when I was a little kid, my father bought me a movie camera. I just wanted to. I don't know how. You just learn, you just do it. You just do it.
rock-and-roll rocks guy
I was never that big a rock-and-roll, rock guy. I really preferred jazz, you know, that kind of thing.
aunt parent my-family
I have to say, I'm not someone who's really big into my family history - never really was very curious about it. The only thing I know about it is what I picked up from my aunts and parents.
brother school years
I went to Our Lady of Mercy, parochial school and I started Fordham Prep, but that only lasted about a year and then I - to me, it was like going to some kind of concentration camp. I was not very happy. And I only went there because that's where my brother went, really.
thinking hands parent
I think my parents - my parents were very hands-off, quite liberal in terms of their - they really - they did encourage me, but they never really pushed me into anything, really.
teacher writing stories
I was also a good writer, by the way. My, you know, my English teacher and writing teacher loved my writing. You know, I wrote short stories and things like that. And they liked them very much.