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on Monday March 15 2010, @05:00AM
Posted in the forums in a thread started by Leather Elbows, link from billybu69 (original thread):
http://www.interviewmagazine.com/art/linder/ Linder By Morrissey Photography Solve Sundsbo
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Morrissey interviews Linder in Interview magazine (March 2010)
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There it is in four words: (Score:0)
Not a good reporter (Score:1)
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Sounds like our Mozzer... (Score:1, Insightful)
Two Peas in a Pod (Score:2, Insightful)
I thought his questions were very thoughtful, particularly this:
"Since the mouth is a powerful center, why do you hide yours? Is your mouth in the wrong part of your body, do you think?"
Her answers were equally thought-provoking:
"... a great deal of talent is required to turn eccentricity into charm. But how quickly that charm can curdle and turn back into a kind of sour milk of the personality. . . . It’s the razor-blade high wire that genius walks."
As someone who still struggles with the creative process, I find this conversation between two mature, inventive minds inspiring (if more than a little smug). Linder is so right: artistic success is often as much about charm as anything else; there is no better example of this than her friend Morrissey.
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It's true, (Score:2, Interesting)
Most creative people I know are repulsed by the ordinary and banal - it is what motivates them to express themselves in (hopefully) constructive, inspiring ways.
Morrissey and Linder don't come off as warm, tolerant and cuddly, but I don't expect that from them. What I do expect is some measure of creativity and insight.
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Re:It's true, (Score:2, Interesting)
Moz and Linder do seem to be quite pleased with themselves, it's true. I can't really comment on Linder, but after a few decades of people swooning, sobbing, screaming and genuflecting in his presence, I'd be surprised if Morrissey DIDN'T think he was all that and a bag of chips.
I freely admit that his occasional arrogance can be a bit off-putting, but I can overlook it if he still has something interesting to say, and his questions here were interesting.
So, not a bore quite yet...
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linder interview (Score:1, Insightful)
morrissey was fantastic, but linder -- could she be any more affected? collages rank right up there with shells on teapots for the daycare set, dearie.
"are tits a pain in the neck" (Score:1, Funny)
NOW can you see.... (Score:1, Interesting)
she is more like Moz (Score:0)
she needs to write a novel....could read her for hours!
Has he announced summat new like a new (Score:0)
if not i question the question
irene
'Art is...about life' (Score:2, Insightful)
Linder Sterling's visual art makes fulminating statements with a force that can substitute immediately and rudely for tomes of feminist disgruntlement about the conventional lot of women and their relationship to each household appliance and to gendered presentations and expectations.
Despite the Wildean themes to stoke up debate, the most admirable quality of the interview is the 'steadfast and constant' affinity between the two players. Each has contributed in very individual and influential ways to making the implicit explicit in an often indifferent culture. For a unique living and mutually-sustaining bond, the choice of the ungovernable sea as metaphor of containment works. And their ships came in, after all.
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to sum the interview up. (Score:1, Insightful)
boring circle-jerk nonsense.
Linder isn't that good.
truth is out.
Linda teaches. (Score:2, Interesting)
A little bored with a lack of ambition/general mediocrity of the dull middle-class round-a-bout that is Britsh art/media/TV et all...yes...and rightly so!
The most interesting point to mull over is the line about a lot of art being merely 'self-expression' and how no one cannot 'fail' at that(Emin/Hirst etc?)...instead of illuminating some universal truth...
How do we feel that plays out in relation to our Moz?
Everytime I see Linder Sterling's name... (Score:1)
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Found,Found,Found (Score:0)
when he did the interview w` Joni Mitchell
that was interesting and full of sensible Questions
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bbbbbbbbbbboooooooorrrrrrrrriiiiiiiinnnnnnnnnngggg (Score:0)
Pompous twaddle (Score:0)
Interview in Interview (Score:2, Insightful)
Glad they had a go at Hirst but I do feel a bit sorry for Christine Cowshed.
As for head lamps - ever heard of irony you moaners
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Christine Cowshed! (Score:1)
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Self-absorbed, pretentious bullshit (Score:0)
I think I'm going to listen to some classic jazz and blues now, written by someone who lives in the real world and can be related to.
The Joy of Sex & The Kama Sutra (Score:1)
Have they notably helped anyone to deal better with the 'mesmerising mess'? : )
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The Joy of Intimacy and Sensuality and etc. . . (Score:1)
thank you for the GangLord film, interesting watch . . .
Et vous, with mind of delectable hue,
IX
PS: Tune in at midnight gmt.
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"Christine Cowshed" (Score:0)
Charming and Thought-provoking (Score:2, Insightful)
I couldn't help but imagine Morrissey chortling to himself while bemusingly writing out his questions while lying on his couch, or perhaps Linder's (across the room from her?
How awesome the concept of great artists (and friends) interviewing each other, having a conversation 'with curtains wide open' for us common chip-eating cowsheds to view and wonder, and hopefully to think a bit deeper about our own perspectives. Thank you, Andy Warhol! Thank you, Moz and Linder!!
My favorite quotes by Linder from the article:
"For me, art is the conversion of a personal experience into a universal truth—or making a trip to the chip shop sound cosmic. At this, you have never failed."
"musicians and singers, but with the minds and eyes of novelists. Nowadays, boys with enormous . . . record collections describe me as the “muse” to this circle in Manchester. Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps. . . . But you were my muses too."
And the openness of Moz asking about his friend's tits in any other open conversation would sound so wrong, but in asking Linder, he acknowledges her art and provides the opportunity for her to address the evolution of her feminist and feminine identity through her art as herself. It's totally relevant and a friendly tease (at both her and perhaps also us gossipy fans) at the same time.
Well done, both!
with love and admiration,
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