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the building, I knew it would be the right setting for my idea of a laboratory for performance art. F: what is your defnition of art? RW: Dominique de Menil: "art is like air, when you have it, you do not think about it, but when you do not have it, you miss it." F: what is the future of art? RW: a place where one can lose their head. F: Tell us about the artist's residency program. RW: Each year, we select 20 to 30 artists, internationally, who come to the center and develop new work, and afterwards, we help to showcase it in major venues around the word. F: what advice do you have for budding young artists? RW: Keep working. If you work long and hard enough, you will fnd something. F: who are your favorite artists and why? RW: For the moment, I like very much cocoRosie. I like their work as visual artists, as writers and lyricists, and I love their music. I also like for the same reasons, the work of antony Hegarty, and I enjoy the writing of Daryll Pinckney. F: what's your favorite food? RW: all pastas. F: what's your philosophy on life? RW: To ask questions, to say: "what is it?" and not what something is. F: Is there anything in your life you would do diferently if you could rewind? RW: I would love to have learned to play the piano. F: Has anyone infuenced or inspired you? RW: George Balanchine, Jerome Robins, Merce cunningham, John cage, willem de Kooning and John chamberlain. F: what do you believe is the most pressing crisis in the world at the moment? How do you think it should be resolved? RW: The war of politics and religion; they separate men. art can unite people. Remarks by RobeRt Wilson "An artist recreates history, not like a historian, but as a poet. The artist takes the communal ideas and associations that surround the various gods of his or her time and plays with them, inventing another story for these mythic characters." Robert Wilson in conversations with Umberto Eco in Performing arts Journal, Jan. 1993 "Light in my work functions as a part of an architectural whole. It is an element which helps us hear and see, which is the primary way we communicate. Without light there is no space." Robert Wilson interviewed in Dance Ink, 1995 "I have never told an actor 'this means that'. I create a very strict structure as far as choreography is concerned, I am strict when I give directions for movement, but not thought. The directions I give, if I give them, to the actors, are about them being more inward, faster or slower. Formalistic directions. 'Quieter', 'Stronger', 'Faster', 'Pull that.' I don't discuss with the actors what they say on stage or what they think. Sometimes I tell them: 'You believe too much in what you are saying and so you are not believable.'" Robert Wilson interviewed in The Vima, 2001 FAIRWEATHER | SUMMER 2013 | 21