Speaking from his Chicago studio, interdisciplinary artist Theaster Gates talks to Elise By Olsen about why his enormous archive of 100,000-plus books and objects gets to “the truth of Black radical intelligence and Black imagination”
What, then, is collecting for the 21st century? “In this digital world we no longer go to libraries, and we no longer sit with the objects in the same way that we used to a generation ago,” says Gates. “Algorithmic intelligence makes it easier and easier for a person to only understand, read or be consumed by things that they like. That can become very telescopic and narrow.
These physical objects create new, unexpected, synaptic connections. And by being surrounded with beautiful things that also hold knowledge and memory, I maintain an investment in a wider position of the world. I’m interested in giving order to the things that come across my desk that pique my interest. By doing that, the object will represent a kind of self-portrait. In the end, what I have is a portrait of my interests, and who I am. I like that. Collecting as a kind of portraiture.
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