"For us, the idea of having a work that has contradictions is very important—when, in affirming something, it includes itself and attacks itself. How can you put together all of these things that have nothing to do with each other? You use glue! Glue can be an idea, a word. You can use an ideological glue."
"Exit–Videosketch #6" (1999)
"Exit–Videosketch #6," 1999
Total running time: 8 minutes, 51 seconds, looped
Edition of 10
Courtesy Meulensteen, New York
Total running time: 8 minutes, 51 seconds, looped
Edition of 10
Courtesy Meulensteen, New York
"Perhaps the more ‘operatic’ video pieces were a reaction to my knit sculpture, which kept me isolated for so long in the studio that the videos were a way for me to be social and flamboyant and to change my mind all the time. Because when I did the knit pieces, once I committed myself to a piece I was locked into an idea and the only thing that could really move was my mind. The early video pieces were a way for me to express what was going on in my mind."
- Oliver Herring
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