with Martin Gustavsson

“Ten questions and more answers were written separately in advance by the author and the artist respectively, neither knowing what the other’s were. The questions derived from a series of intense studio visits and private conversations between the two during the development of the work. The answers take the form of carefully selected quotations from a diverse range of sources that variously (pre)occupy the artist. During the performance, questions and answers were drawn at random, one pair at a time.. Their conjunction was pure chance (or something else), emulating or enacting structural and interpretive characteristics of the work exhibited, representing the kind of communication that might occur within a friendship.” - I.W.

This performance was a playful collaboration responding to Gustavsson’s ongoing body of paintings called In No Particular Order. During an exhibition of the work, the order of the paintings on the wall was changed whilst White and Gustavsson’s prewritten questions and answers were simultaneously read aloud in random pairings.

White subsequently wrote an annotated version of the performance for the page, which is collected in the volume Here Is Information. Mobilise.

First performance: 12 November 2010, Maria Stenfors gallery, London

Subsequently:

June 2012, Eastside Projects, Birmingham