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The Proust Questionnaire

A very long time ago we completed Trap\door Artist Run Centre’s “The Proust Questionnaire”, which they published in their newsletter.

For those wishing to learn more about us, it is reproduced below.

¦ What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
Waiting in a Greyhound station for 5 hours to come home.

¦ Where would you like to live?
Bruce Nauman’s ranch or George Maciunas’ island or The Factory.

¦ What is your idea of earthly happiness?
Immaterial pictorial sensibility.

¦ To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
Idleness.

¦ Who are your favourite heroes of fiction?
Rabo Karabekian, R. Mutt, Tom Thomson.

¦ Who are your favourite characters in history?
The Potato Eaters, the School of Athens, the Nighthawks.

¦ Who are your favourite heroines in real life?
Emma Lake, Susan Sontag, Lucy Lippard, Rosalind Krauss.

¦ Who are your favourite heroines in fiction?
Rrose Selavy, Cindy Sherman, Miranda July.

¦ Your favourite painter?
Yves Klein.

¦ Your favourite musician?
John Cage.

¦ The quality you most admire in a man?
Psychic automatism.

¦ The quality you most admire in a woman?
Disembodied contours.

¦ Your favourite virtue?
Quality no, energy yes.

¦ Your favourite occupation?
Explaining art to dead hares or anyone within earshot.

¦ Who would you have liked to be?
The Joseph Beuys back-up band.

Posted by Mary-Anne on Nov 26, 03:26 PM ·


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