Exhibition “Interview & Artists As An Interviewer” was held from 22 March 2011 to 20 April 2011 at the Arts Art Museum in the Arts Center in Seoul, South Korea. ‘Intraweave’ was presented in the constructed video space.

Artists Statement

I am not you. I ask you not knowing how you would answer. You promise to answer my question not knowing what the next question might be. What is the thread that connects us? Our memories, environments, lives, and dreams and different. With this difference, how can we be connected? You are essentially a different person than me. Unless we feel this essential difference through confrontation, we shall live this period as a part of one mass.

I have been focusing on the situations and relationships between other people as their voices come together or diverge, shows or hided because of the social, and linguistic topography. I am interested in the situation of Western Europe where the failure of transnationalism’ was declared. and I conducted an interivew with immigrants in a metropolitan topography, especially three artists engaged in various creative endeavors. I conducted interviews with Hawaii-born Stacy Makish, who is active as a performance artist and a writer; Northern Ireland-born Anita McKeown, who is an artists and curator busy creating a new paradigm for public art and developing community projects; and David Dunkley Gyimah, who is active internationally in refocusing on the genre of video journalism from an aesthetic perspective.

The new project titled intraweave, presented in the spring of 2011, is a conversation that takes place for the duration of 17 minutes. On the three screen that are separate but conducted, my questions are deleted and only the three voices remain. Beginning with an orange ball of yarn given of each of the interviewees, what begins without a cue is not an interview but the non-verbal sound made by the interviewees. Although they do not meet, they discuss, share emotions, and present their opinions in agreement or in disagreement. Through the format of the interview, their voices are maximised and their stories become public. They express their thoughts about the interview, itself.

Stacy conducts and abrupt interview with a stuffed deer by entering the space of a neighbour who is a hunter. When conducting an interview, she says it is her role not to let go of the relational connection between the two until the interviewee is satisfied. Also she believes the authority of the artist should be through away when working with others. David is a veteran interviewer who has interviewed many famous poeple around the world and speaks about the problems that he has encountered because he is black. He firmly states ‘it is your problem’.

This interview is divided into seven chapters and dismantles the question, the order, and the situation of a real interview. As if weaving a fabric, they use the same yarn to create a garment with a new narrative.

(Taey Iohe, 2011)