Teaching at university isn't like teaching in an art school.

I just say I'm an artist who works with pictures and words.

I'm living my life, not buying a lifestyle.

I'm an artist who works with pictures and words. Sometimes that stuff ends up in different kinds of sites and contexts which determine what it means and looks like.

I mean, making art is about objectifying your experience of the world, transforming the flow of moments into something visual, or textual, or musical, whatever. Art creates a kind of commentary.

It's really hard for me to use the term 'history' in the singular, because it suggests a reductivist view of how moments and events congeal and reflect the passage of time. I'd rather stick to the pluralness of 'histories' in order to suggest the simultaneity, the parallel forces at work, which produce lived experience.

If most American cities are about the consumption of culture, Los Angeles and New York are about the production of culture - not only national culture but global culture.