Flaunt
2015-05-13
My landscape is a big scene for you, no? It’s always like you have the inside and you have the outside. So the outside is kind of the landscape you live in your environment. There’s like two parts of it, the natural part and the people part and the society you are in then the world you are in. Art history was always kind of picturing that world you are in. Because now the meaning of landscape changed, the meaning of nature changed, so redoing this is very simple again and again and again. In a different way it makes a lot of sense for me. It’s a different meaning now than it was ten years ago or 20 years ago. Nobody knows what landscape actually means right now. It’s a new kind of meaning that its just getting right now and art always helps to go at what’s important and to give meaning to certain things or to get a feeling or to give a visual to a certain kind of meaning...
Julius Von Bismarck is energetically whipping a small piece of the majestic landscape to the point of physical exhaustion”*—Where artist Julius Von Bismarck enjoys some tea in an elevator with Flaunt
Did you dream last night?
Dreamed? Yeah, I dreamed but something sexual. It wasn’t about the city.
Do you get your dreams? Is it always in a loop? Where what you were dealing with a year ago, is coming back now?
Yeah, it’s all kinds of things. Sometimes its very obvious, the stuff that happened the day before, sometimes it’s some struggles I had a year ago. Like I learned Russian in school and I had those Russian exams. So, sometimes I’d still think that tomorrow is a Russian exam and I didn’t learn. But then a lot of sexual things also. You always have sex. It’s just something that comes up every night. So that was last night.
Are you able to control your dreams?
When they become sexual, yes. Not if it’s the other way around. If they become controllable, they become sexual, but then they’re not long lasting anymore because then I know it’s going to end. Once you control it, you know it’s a dream; once you know it’s a dream, you’re kind of close to waking up. You know, “Okay, yeah, I have a couple minutes to finish this dream.” So yeah, got to have sex. You can do whatever because you can control like you’re god in a dream.
I guess you face more constraints in art?
Yeah, but artists are supposed to be more free than other things. Sometimes you’re so frustrated as an artist because there’s so much stress and you don’t make enough money to do what you want to do or to pay your bills. Art is commercial and you don’t want to be a part of the commercial world. You don’t want to do the commercial works, but you have to do them in order to actually make some money to do the other works that you want to do but you couldn’t do if you wouldn’t do [the other thing]. In the end, I’m so happy that I can actually do what I’m doing. No other economy would support what I’m doing except for the art world. So, I’m very happy that it’s possible....
