Siri Hustvedt Interview: Art is a Memory
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- Опубліковано 8 лип 2024
- "Every painting is always two paintings: The one you see, and the one you remember." Interview with the renowned writer Siri Hustvedt on her strong personal relationship with art and on how she sees image and text as very different experiences.
In this interview American writer Siri Hustvedt (b.1955) explains how the experience of art is always a deeply personal one, which we keep with us as a memory, like meeting a person: "The work of art we carry around with us is a memory, not like the original." Since we're always changing, always becoming, it is possible to return to a piece of art years later and have a completely new experience, and in this way Hustvedt has rediscovered art more than once: "Either because I failed to notice something, or because I wasn't in a position to notice."
Hustvedt explains how she attempts to make a kind of translation of her experience of a work of art into an essay, but how "the word is always an abstraction, in a way that looking at an image is not." Hustvedt also talks about curiosity, sensitivity, over stimulation, Goya, and having to sometimes look away. Art is supposed to affect us and alter us, she says: "I'm never interested in what I can easily understand."
Siri Hustvedt has written poetry, novels, essays, and a work of non-fiction. Her books include What I Loved (2003), The Sorrows of an American (2008) and The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves (2010).
The essay "Why Goya?", that Siri Hustvedt is reading in the film, is from her collection of essays: "Living, Thinking, Looking" published in 2012.
Siri Hustvedt was interviewed by Synne Rifberg at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebæk, May 2013.
Camera by Klaus Elmer
Edit: Kamilla Bruus
Produced by: Marc-Christoph Wagner, 2013
Copyright: Louisiana Channel, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art.
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I love her thoughts on returning to paintings and noticing new things or being a new noticer even.
10:39 "His body rejected the horror he had seen"
12:11 "The best accumulation of knowledge is born out of genuine curiosity"
I think her husband is the best living US writer, I am looking forward to investigating Siri and discovering the ways they influence each others work.
I saw Siri speak at Hay this weekend. Superb clarity and she doesn't waste a single word. I am off out to buy Living, Thinking , Seeing today.
Brilliant
Does anyone know about the German group of artist, who recreated the art from Bill Wechsler in "What I loved"? I would love to see these pieces.
Have you found them?
❤️ Tak Siri
Dig it
7هحفنوك
I'd like to kiss her
Perhaps it's just me but I would prefer to SEE more of the artwork and less of the person.
Frankly, it's boring just to watch a person sitting and talking, especially if the individual is not a compelling speaker.
really, art has to be understood? I didn't know art appreciation was about logic and intellect. Isn't that what math is for?
what
She literally said she prefers when she can’t understand a whole thing
She's a German or Norwegian and looks at art the way that cultrure does.
The interview gets off track. She rambles and mumbles, and she becomes hard to follow. I didn't get one single f***ing thing from watching this. The interviewer is not doing his job, that job being to keep the guest on track. Interrupt and ask a question if you need to. Never do an interveiw like this. Best avoid watching. Instead, read the summary at the top of the page. Or read her book.