Snapshot from the studio of Anne-Lise Coste, 2023
Kunstbulletin: What questions do you have about art at the beginning of this new year - about art in general and about your own?
Anne-Lise Coste: Will my work be selling enough to make me able to pay the next month’s rent?
Kunstbulletin: What do you see as the major challenges for art, or rather for your art, in the coming months or years?
Coste: Will I have the strength to continue making art with a playful sharing spirit? This is my biggest challenge.
Kunstbulletin: Art is an important resonance chamber. Have there been moments, encounters, or reactions in the last year in which you have realised this particularly strongly, from which you also draw energy to continue working?
Coste: Each encounter for me is a source of energy; friendship is a treasure: Lee Lozano at La Bourse de Commerce, even though the hanging wasn’t that good, her work is so powerful, full of anger and spiritually; Claude Viallat at Carré d’Art in Nîmes, his hanging is of fantastic lightness, his colors just a gift; Yu Nishimura paintings, so subtle and simple and existential; Delphine Seyrig and Carole Roussopoulos at La cité des arts in Paris – each time there is a collaboration between humans, I applaud; ‹The straight mind›, a lucid book by Monique Wittig – she made us aware of the entire system of domination of gender and skin colour and its constructions; the novel ‹Un autre pays› by James Baldwin – a vertigo at each page, so precise, politically and emotionally, making the reader facing racism as a hierarchy among human beings; Bell Hooks – every book of hers tells the reader that love is the way, and it’s not about being naive, only cynical people say that, but about caring for each other (everything that is alive or not) and oneself; Adèle Haenel, who is taking a position on the film industry against the continuing consensus of violence, domination and morbidity, goes working for theater and only for young or new filmmakers brava, brava.
➔ Der Dialog war Teil einer Umfrage bei ausgewählten Schweizer Kunstschaffenden zur Stimmungslage Anfang 2024. Die Rückmeldungen aller beteiligten Künstler:innen sind in Auszügen im Kunstbulletin 1-2/2024 erschienen.
