Janine Antoni Quotes

• Performance wasnt something that I intended to do. I was doing work that was about process, about the meaning of the making, trying to have a love-hate relationship with the object. I always feel safer if I can bring the viewer back to the making of it. I try to do that in a lot of different ways, by residue, by touch, by these processes that are basic to all of our lives...that people might relate to in terms of process, everyday activities- bathing, eating, etc.

  Janine Antoni

  Art, Hate, People

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• I mopped the floor with my hairThe reason I’m so interested in taking my body to those extreme places is that that’s a place where I learn, where I feel most in my body. I’m really interested in the repetition, the discipline, and what happens to me psychologically when I put my body to that extreme place.

  Janine Antoni

  Learning, Hair, Discipline

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• I'm really interested in the repetition, the discipline, and what happens to me psychologically when I put my body to that extreme place.

  Janine Antoni

  Discipline, Body, Repetition

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• With Gnaw I was thinking about traditional sculpture, about carving. I was also interested in figurative sculpture. I put those two ideas together and decided that rather than describing the body, I would use the body, my body, as a tool for making art.

  Janine Antoni

  Art, Thinking, Ideas

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