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
addressing coming easier experience general randomly tourist work
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.
inanimate object work
What my work is about is, 'Can something that is not an inanimate object be considered valuable?'
develop related work
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.
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.
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?
against attaching home man object seek work
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.
people work
The people who are interested in my work - they're quite far-out.
looks
I don't see myself as somebody who looks particularly good in photos.
two dimensions four
Photographs are two-dimensional. I work in four dimensions.
attention materials
Attention is the material I work with.
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.
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.
basic buy few people produce producing
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.
I am for fetishisation! All of us have our favourite things, and they speak to us.