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Psychedelic, Baby: An Interview with Pipilotti Rist

2000; College Art Association; Volume: 59; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/00043249.2000.10792033

2325-5307

Jane Gary Harris,

Psychedelics and Drug Studies

Pipilotti Rist is the kind of artist you can get a big crush on. Her work wills you into its charm, and so does she. Self-possessed, stylish, and smart, she seems at one with the lush and enchanting worlds she creates in her media extravaganzas. And like her work, Rist defies easy apprehension. As such, my interview with her could be thought to be doomed from the beginning, and in the conventional sense I suppose it was. Arriving at Luhring Augustine Gallery in New York on a brutally cold Sunday morning in April (it was snowing), her last day in town, I found her preoccupied with getting her installations up and going for a crowd of Guggenheim collectors to whom she was to give a walk-through later that day. Our conversation began with coffee and some idle chatting. But soon a kind of friendly struggle ensued. Questions were met with questions, their meanings continuously negotiated, and in the end, there were few revelations. Nonetheless, the evolution of our dialogue, with its frequent stops and starts, and awkward lurches, provided insights of its own.