”To understand a coffee cup, you would have to understand the entire universe”. Meet British artist Keith Tyson, as he explains the interconnectedness of existence through a coffee cup.
A coffee cup is many things. It deals with the laws of physics, as it smashes, when dropping it to the floor. It is also design. But mostly we tend to think of it as a utility we drink coffee from, Tyson says.
With art it is different. “The strength of an artwork is that it doesn’t have a use. It allows us to access these questions of why is it there, why is it the way it is, what does it mean, and these are questions about ourselves, of what is means to exist in the world”.
Keith Tyson sees his works as being unimportant, they don’t have to be there, and yet they are, and that is what makes them important for interpretation and understanding of the interconnectedness of our own existence.
Keith Tyson (b.1969) is a British artist, who won the Turner Prize in 2002. His work revolves around the complexity of the universe in many different shapes such as generating systems for his art, creating motherboard sculptures, showing associative objects as the exhibition “Large Field Array” qnd trying to understand the self and how everything is all connected in the end.
Keith Tyson was interviewed at the David Risley Gallery, Copenhagen by Kasper Bech Dyg.
Camera: Nikolaj Jungersen
Edited & produced by: Kasper Bech Dyg
Copyright Louisiana Channel, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2014
Supported by Nordea-Fonden
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