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Money Talks. It Starts Rumors About Careers And Complicity And Speaks Of The Tragedies And Triumphs Of Our Social Lives.

I Think People Have To Set Up Little Battles. They Have To Demonize People Whom They Disagree With Or Feel Threatened By. But It's The Ideological Framing Of The Debate That Scares Me.

The Art World Has Always Been An Unrelenting Taste Machine, But Now Flavors Of The Month Have Morphed Into Flavors Of The Minute. Again, All A Reflection Of A Wider Cultural Condition. I Mean, The Art World Is Slow Compared With The Music And Movie Businesses.

I Remember Going Into Galleries And Seeing This Thing Called Conceptual Art, And I Understand People’s Marginalization From What The Art Subculture Is Because If You Haven’t Crashed The Codes, And If You Don’t Know What It Is, You Feel It’s A Conspiracy Against Your Unintelligence. You Feel It’s Fraud.

But I Really Resist Categories – That Naming Is A Closing Down Of Meaning. Women's Art, Political Art – Those Categorisations Perpetuate A Certain Kind Of Marginality Which I'm Resistant To. But I Absolutely Define Myself As A Feminist.