Todd Stewart has been a visual artist inhabiting the edges of the cultural spectrum in New York for over six years. Working with the likes of Tony Oursler, Bruce Weber, Steven Shore, Melissa Huffsmith-Roth and Casson Demmon, Stewart has defined his place as an icon of the stupendously underground art scene by an uncanny sense of timing and joie de vivre. Working in video, photography, sound and performing arts he has continually pushed the bounds of taste through understatement. This has been no mean feat. Stop Smiling caught up with the elusive Mr. Stewart outside his apartment in Brooklyn.
SS: You have been working on a number of projects lately, care to elucidate any motifs?
TS: Uh, well, it all involves a lot of stuff.
SS: So would you say the stuff has a lot to do with your other stuff?
TS: Yeah, definitely. Lots of similarities, but some key differences too.
SS: Stuff begets stuff doesn't it?
TS: Good point.
SS: To change gears, Robert Altman mentioned that you were not an influential person in his development.
TS: Really? He said that? Huh.
SS: How are you doing?
TS: Pretty good.
SS: Can you explain more?
TS: Sure.
SS: Well, thanks for talking to us.
TS:
The Todd Stewart interview will appear in full in the June 2006 issue of Stop Smiling.
2 comments:
maybe you should get "doofus" tattooed on your other breast
I'm sorry about that whole Bronx comment earlier, that was just rude.
Love Casson
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