David Helbich interviews David Helbich, feb-march 2008
David: Are you an artist?
David: Yes.
David: What for an artist?
David: -
David: Ehm, are you a passionated artist?
David: No.
David: You are not an obsessed, passionated artist?
David: No.
David: Are you an artist, who loves his work?
David: Yes.
David: Do you think, that you are a good artist?
David: Yes.
David: Very good?
David: No.
David: But you like your own work?
David: Yes.
David: Do others like your work?
David: -
David: Do you know others, who like your work?
David: Yes.
David: Do you know others, who think, that you are a good artist?
David: Yes.
David: A very good artist?
David: No.
David: Do you think, it is possible to be a good artist, if you are not a very good artist?
David: Yes.
David: Why?
David: -
David: What makes acctually someone being a good artist?
David: -
David: Ok, what makes someone being an artist at all?
David: -
David: Is it your art, what makes you an artist?
David: Yes.
David: Is it your art, what makes you a good or bad artist?
David: Yes.
David: Is everything you do art?
David: No.
David: Is art what you do?
David: Yes.
David: Are there things becoming art by being done by you?
David: Yes.
David: All?
David: No.
David: If there are things becoming art by being done by you, is your art about things?
David: Yes.
David: So, your art is not about subjects?
David: -
David: Does your art has a theme?
David: No.
David: Would you like to have a theme?
David: -
David: Do you sometimes wish, you would like to have a theme?
David: Yes.
David: And sometimes not?
David: Yes.
David: Are you happy with how you do things?
David: No.
David: Would you like to be happy with what you do?
David: Yes.
David: Do you think it is possible to be happy with what you do?
David: Yes.
David: Are you working on your own happieness?
David: Yes.
David: Will this save the woreld?
David: -
David: -
David: -
David: Yes.
David: Yes?
David: -
David: Yes.
David: Let's say it wont. Could you imagine to do something else, than what you are doing?
David: Yes.
David: Do you like this image?
David: Yes.
David: A lot?
David: No.
David: So, what?
David: -
David: So, what do you do with this image of you doing something else? Does it change your way of doing things?
David: -
David: Your way of making art,...
David: -
David: ...of being on the-way-of-art? Can anything make you talk about this?
David: No.
David: Is there a clear difference between your gaze on the worled and your gaze on art?
David: Yes.
David: Is art not part of the world.
David: Yes.
David: It is not?
David: No?
David: It is?
David: Yes.
David: Ok. So, if art is a part of the world - next to that art is part of 'part', haha, ...eh, ok - so, if art is a part of the world, are you certain, that you can make a difference between your gaze on both of it?
David: Yes.
David: By what?
David: -
David: Is your gaze on the world part of this world?
David: Yes.
David: Is your gaze on art part of art?
David: Yes.
David: Of the particular artwork?
David: No.
David: Is your gaze on art part of the world?
David: Yes.
David: Of something called art which is in the world and not part of the artwork...
David: Yes.
David: Is your gaze on the world part of art?
David: -
David: Hm. Is your gaze on the world part of your art?
David: -
David: Ok, is your gaze on the world part of your artworks?
David: Yes.
David: Good.
David: Yes.
David: Jaja, I mean, let's speak about you then.
David No.
David: Not?
David: Yes.
David: Yes?
David: No.
David: Aaah!
David: Yes.
David: Whatever. How are you?