ARTiculAction Art Review - Special Issuue Aug. 2016 | Page 152

ICUL CTION
C o n t e m p o r a r y A r t R e v i e w
Leonid Dutov
Special Issue
audience reception as being a crucial component of your decision-making process , in terms of what type of language is used in a particular context ?
As I said earlier , audience is very important for me in general . It makes no difference whether they will accept my work or not , but it is essential for me to understand why they accept or reject it . And it does not have to be a verbal response .
Thanks a lot for your time and for sharing your thoughts , Leonid . Finally , would you like to tell us readers something about your future projects ? How do you see your work evolving ?
So far I have worked on 10-15 new projects a year , some of them , due to the specifics of my approach , would be left for the next year , some of them were just weeded out , and some would become performed exercises . I do not focus on video only . For example , I had an installation , which once was exhibited and was supposed to become a part of a big Internet project , but then it just rotted away in the basement of organizers of that exhibition as even when disassembled it was a cube of one-by-one meter in size . It was the moment , by the way , when I made head or tale of the saying : “ to contaminate a friend ’ s apartment with art ”, which is a by-word with my friends , who are sculptors . This year I have carried out two photo projects , which I am going to transfer on paper next year . I also have a couple of longlasting projects on which I am currently working on and also projects , which I conceived a while ago and I am willing to carry out . But they require significant organizational expenses and financial investments , which currently outcome my resources . For example , one of them can be carried out only with a team of three members , at that , we have to make a series of trips , and although they can be short , but still they shall cover at least 10 countries from those in Africa to Canada .
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