John Beattie
b. 1980, Ireland
The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act.
— Marcel Duchamp
My practice examines the process of how I work as a painter. I employ participatory, ephemeral, process-oriented, provisional and conceptual strategies – all of which could be called ‘performative’ – to communicate my language to the viewer-participant.
(Text: give(a)way catalogue, 2006)
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