Q&A offers a unique opportunity to ask difficult, fantastic, probing, abstract, and exceptional questions that might otherwise be deemed too eccentric, irrelevant, or presumptuous to surface in a standard interview. In this iteration of the format, KADIST international director Joseph del Pesco has invited the peripatetic image-maker Curran Hatleberg to answer 14 questions.
P H O T O G R A P H Y
Down, down, under and below?
Questions and Appearances
with Curran Hatleberg
Written by Joseph del Pesco
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Questions & Appearances is a collaborative publishing endeavor launched by KADIST. Q&A follows a very simple format: Curators pose questions, and artists answer with images. The strategy is borrowed from Hans-Peter Feldmann, who has, since the 70s, answered interview questions with pictures.
Still frictions to follow?
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What’s better left?
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Forget, forgive or forgo?
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And wheresoever the other may find us?
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Can you ever really see your own face?
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What if the front door is a picture frame?
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Does the moon have a language?
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Did they catch it in the wind?
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Which dark wish can be sung?
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Are the trees immune?
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What does it feel like, a father’s first breath?
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Is memory a seed, only blooming years later?
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When in the milk-blue night, do we sleep?
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