Vašulka Mediascape

“Fortunately the material has a way of confronting you…”

Steina: “There is a danger of being infatuated with an ‘idea’ and then trying to impose it upon the material. Fortunately, the material has a way of confronting you with ‘This is not very interesting, but let me show you something else that is.’ If you are alert you can drop all preconceptions and catch that moment. You start this dialogue and end up with something completely different from what you intended to do.”

“A Conversation between Steina and Woody Vašulka, Don Foresta and Christiane Carlut” (1992), in Buffalo Heads, Woody Vašulka & Peter Weibel, eds, ZKM, Karlsruhe (2008); link: https://vasulka.org/Kitchen/essays_carlut/K_CarlutConversation_06.html.