The S/S12 issue AnOther Magazine takes as its subject the Stars of Now, the artists, designers, writers and activists whose work is resonant for this moment in time including Alexander McQueen's Sarah Burton, choreographer Pina Bausch and Jeffrey
The S/S12 issue of AnOther Magazine takes as its subject the Stars of Now, the artists, designers, writers and activists whose work is resonant for this moment in time. From Yayoi Kusama, the extraordinary Japanese artist currently in residence at the Tate Modern, and Jessica Chastain, the standout film star of the moment, to Jeffrey Sachs, vocal advocate for political action and change in America and Sarah Burton, the figurehead for British fashion, who has stepped into the biggest shoes in design and emerged as an indistutable star in her own right; AnOther has conducted interviews with those who truly represent the zeitgeist. Here, to whet the appetite, AnOther has collated some of the highlights from these interviews...
Yayoi Kusama on life...
"This fierceness of living
through joys and sorrows of life
sometimes distressed and sometimes
comforted by a joy."
Jeremy Deller on cycling... "The worst thing about cycling is that you can’t read when you’re doing it. I’ve learned that you can’t really turn off. Something is always going to happen, usually involving a mini cab."
Geoff Dyer on Tarkovsky's Zona... "We are in another world that is no more than the world perceived with unprecedented attentiveness. Landscapes like this had been seen before Tarkovsky but – I don’t know how else to put it – their beingness had not been seen in this way. Tarkovsky reconfigured the world, this landscape – this way of seeing the world – into existence."
Louise Bourgeois on art..."The work of art is limited to an acting out, not an understanding. If it were understood, the need to do the work would not exist anymore… Art is a guaranty of sanity but not liberation."
Brian Eno on fashioning a global sense of responsibility..."Major problems – overexploited resources, pollution – would surely be relieved if we could somehow stimulate a better sense of “neighbourhood” among the world’s nations…centred round the notion that there could be a neighbourly relationship based on something other than trade and power, kept in line instead by some form of social conscience."
Jeffrey Sachs on America's fall from economic grace..."The Reagan era set America on an incredibly odd and, in the end, incredibly debilitating course. Reagan said the fateful and famous words, 'Government is not the solution to our problems, government is the problem.' So just as globalisation was getting underway, what did we start in this country? Slashing the taxes of the rich. Slashing the social programs that are addressed to the poor."
Oriana Fallaci on fear...
OF: Are you afraid?
Neil Armstrong: Well…you know, the adrenaline goes up.
OF: Ah, bullshit. Say you’re scared! Who cares about the adrenaline! Tell me, tell me.
Ruth Amarante on Pina Bausch..."With Pina, when we did something on stage, nothing could be overdone or untrue. It’s very easy to lose that. Which is why she was sitting in each performance saying, “that was not it, I don’t believe that anymore”. And now we have to carry that memory of all the things she told us, and try not to make a step we always wanted to but didn’t because she was there. You have to try to keep it how it was, and it’s not easy."
Jessica Chastain on Terrence Malik... "I am a huge fan of Terrence. Just the idea that I’d get to meet him was terrifying. He’s very dear to me now, like family. Everyone thinks he’s a hermit, but that’s not the case at all. He’s a regular guy who lives his life. He has a beautiful family, wonderful friends… just no interest in being in the spotlight. He wants to be behind the camera, not in front of it."
Sarah Burton on the future of Alexander McQueen... "Lee was very much his own person so it’s impossible to know quite what he would have thought but part of the reason for me staying is that I believe he always wanted this to be a house that would be here forever, that he never wanted his name not to mean anything anymore. And I want that too. I want Alexander McQueen to continue. Then, in a hundred years time, there will still be this house that he created, this great place that represents modernity and creativity and beauty and romance and all of those things. That, I think, would be amazing."
Read these interviews in full in the latest edition of AnOther Magazine, out now.
