The Netherlands is respectful.
Russia is corrupt.
Interview with Igor Stromajer
by Annet Dekker
– for Visual Foreign Correspondents
(originally / first published at www.visualcorrespondents.com)
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, February 2008
# project: The Netherlands is respectful. Russia is corrupt. (video)
Igor Stromajer describes himself on his website as an ‘intimate mobile communicator’. He continues: “- researches tactical emotional states and traumatic low-tech strategies. He has shown his work at more than a hundred exhibitions in forty-two countries and received a number of awards. As artist in residence he lectures at universities and contemporary art institutes. His works are included in the permanent collections of various international museums”. However impressive the list is that follows more interesting is his statement: “I believe in intimacy, individualism, emotions, frustrations, traumas, artificial, communication, impossibility, mobility, montage, radicality, sensibility, silence, strategy, tactics, tears, orgasm, concept, pleasure, fantasies, philosophy, transfer, utopia and angels. I do not believe in media, tourism and the end. [Art is a dirty job, but somebody’s got to do it]”
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