Art is a subjective thing, and it should be a subjective thing. And the difficulty of subjectivity is that it becomes hugely problematized when you start applying large sums of money to art objects. That's where it all starts to get a bit sticky.
Uncertainty is a very good thing: it's the beginning of an investigation, and the investigation should never end.
'The Author' is subtly unflinching in its satirical attack on certain practices in the creation of art and the mediation of violence.
A child knows when they are on the receiving end of a didactic exercise, or when they are sitting in the shadow of something else.
'The Author' is a play about responsibility, how active we are as spectators and how responsible we are for what we choose to look at.
I'm on a mission to make people aware that I'm not a solo artist. I'm sometimes challenged by the branding of Tim Crouch.
In many respects, theater is still grappling with problems of reality and representation that the visual art movement realized were unimportant many years ago.
I am particularly interested in creating a relationship between ideas of reception in conceptual art and theater.
I don't want real life necessarily to be seen only as a context to heighten the deepness my work.
It's important for me, politically, to see that theater isn't just about the powerful.
A mental shutdown can happen when a young person is put in front of a Shakespeare play. My pieces are designed to release young audiences into the story and then creep up with the real Shakespeare, almost by stealth.
To have a sense of contemporary ownership of Shakespeare is the most important thing to his work.