Bob & Roberta Smith

I recently went onto research the artist Bob & Roberta Smith. We have been asked at uni to create a statement on a campaign board on anything and everything we want and this artist does similar things. Whilst researching him I have come across an interview he had and a couple of questions caught my attention with his answer. These i have posted below but to view the full interview here is the link (click here)

Interviewer: You work with trash - is that a fair assessment?


B&R: No. Yes. Ok I work with trash.
“Don't Hate Sculpt” is an attempt to share the idea that “being creative is a really good idea” as opposed to the idea put forward by Joseph Buoys who said that “everybody can be an artist”. My idea is much more simple and English; it's a way of looking at creativity and thinking in a way that's not to do with money making. People quite often think that the ways in which I conceive of the world, using discarded materials as trashy but it represents the idea that the world can be organised differently. People can construct their own realities and worlds rather than living in MTV or BBC world. My world is populated by concrete vegetables, miss spelt texts and vegetables which have grown way beyond their life.

Interviewer: So the audience becomes the artists?

B&R: It's the idea of setting something up so that people can experience it or enjoy it or ignore it; whatever they choose. That's the interesting thing about making something which on the surface seems very participatory - you can also view it in a very detached way and wander around it.