Tino Sehgal
Tino Sehgal
Tino Sehgalis a British–German artist, based in Berlin, who describes his work as "constructed situations". He is also thought of as a choreographer that makes dance for the museum setting...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionArtist
two dimensions four
Photographs are two-dimensional. I work in four dimensions.
looks
I don't see myself as somebody who looks particularly good in photos.
writing people subjectivity
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.
certain degree family helpful material packaged therapy transform turn work
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?
encounter human material places prime supposed
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.
great
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.
almost efforts evening high music object status
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.
derive factors game income joined lifestyle money occupy ourselves package product status work
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.
derived displaying industrial museum museums objects promoting society tied valuing wealth
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.
attaching felt kids sensitive system
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.
inanimate object work
What my work is about is, 'Can something that is not an inanimate object be considered valuable?'
address function material
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.