Hermann Vaske's interview with Tracey Emin

In 1999 I was invited to Tracey's place. My friends Tina and Stefan from the Maxwell Restaurant in Berlin made the contact. Tracey ate Lychees, and I rolled the cameras.

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[mousemutant]

lychees are yum yum

[idiotsdream]

I quite like her. She manages to make her own life as a performance piece.

[midnightcowgirl7272]

this is a nasty talentless person. boasting about abortion,she should have been aborted.a woman has a right to choose over her own body.it is not a ticket to fame.

[JJSLATER1991]

she's always droning on about her abortions....shut up!

[mrkayheely]

Self portrait as hermann vaske's interview with tracey emin

[TurnerEckhardt]

I recently watched a resplendent Modern Art documentary and Tracey Emin was interviewed in it. I have never been so uninterested and bored to death by someone. She had the audacity to go to Norway and speak about Munch's 'The Scream'. It was annoying to listen to someone so talentless speak about an artist so wonderful.

[sweetypie000]

when a commoner gets famous with 'art' that shocks the rich it is easy to create shocking 'art'. Just like it's easy to shock / impress westerners with reality with such a basic and, imo, very average movie such as Slumdog Millionaire.

she might as well fabricate a sloppy gapping 70's hairy-bush pussy with half a condom hanging out of it and call the piece "Hit n' Run"

see, it's easy.

tracey emin, occupation- pointing out the bloody obvious

[mrlaa1]

The highest human endeavour is to make one's life a work of art. She does the opposite. She tries to make works of "art" out of her fragmented, meaningless and sorry personal life.

[romeosdistress]

@bille77 that's 'ow we tork hin sahhf landan

[bille77]

what's that accent of her's? sounds loik terrible

[sinc43]

they do say the most creative thing you can do is make another human life ....and if they get to adulthood without being thrown out of the window then you're a sucess

[Andrew279144]

You should not procreate. Please god that you don't

[6monster6]

What sad dross.



[raspyshiit]

@sleepcity i'm pretty sure the implications of your reply wasn't a joke. if it was you should have indicated it, youtube isn't very good at emoting. they are different styles, and some people prefer others. there isn't a universal definition for what an artist should be labeled.

[sleepcity]

@raspyshiit Oh man, thank you for the laugh. I love that you took my joke seriously and are now trying to convince me that Jay-Z, like Emin, is also deserving of that much debased title, "artist." Bernini isn't better than Emin, you say, just "different". Whitman isn't better than Jay-Z, you say, just "different." Do you not realize the implications of your relativism? If everyone is an artist then no one is. If everything is art then nothing is. Same for music. Do you understand this point?

[raspyshiit]

@sleepcity also, what is you fascination with traditional art? are you afraid of taboos being introduce? or do you like conservative and 'safe' art? and are you an artist yourself? do you paint/draw? can you paint/draw? are you a dreamer? do you dream of interesting concepts and ideas?

[raspyshiit]

@sleepcity i strongly recommend, then we can talk about this shit. and as for rap/poetry you don't really need to introduce me to new things as i'm familiar with whitman's work, they are both talented in different ways. i've been allowing myself to appreciate or at least understand different styles and fusions of all genres, maybe you should too? it would help with your over cynical mindset. 

[raspyshiit]

@sleepcity well there's no point in debating a very subjective topic, if you don't even adknowledge my opinions. i'm not into jay-z's music, yes he has good poetic skills, but his music is shit, and it seems as though he doesn't even try. have you ever heard his 80s mixtapes from back in the day?

[sleepcity]

@stevesg92 Well, you've got to convince Charles Saatchi (or some parvenu hedge-fund manager from New Jersey or some oil billionaire from a poor country with zero education) that it's brilliant, then you can sell it for millions and congratulate yourself on being a modern-day Michelangelo.

[sleepcity]

@raspyshiit Yeah, she's a fucking modern-day Bernini. Right. And Jay-Z's "poetry" is just a good as Walt Whitman's right? It's all the same anyway....

[sleepcity]

Yep, as if we needed any further proof that Tracey Emin is an incapable, irresponsible, talentless attention-whore who is dumber than the average high school student....here it is.

[firemachima]

her speech is somewhat infantile

i like her

[gHostHeroin]

anyone know of any other good artists that work with ideas about abortion and meaning?

[TeenageWildlife]

I think it's a bit silly when people say: "Look! She's provoking outrage and disgust! This is a proof of her talent and success!" Yeah, Neo-Nazis provoke outrage and disgust too, they must be doing something wonderful. There are better ways to defend her shit rhetorically speaking, but I don't know why anyone would want to...

[boatmanzxc]

@bordereye some extremely interesting points here. However when regarding her art from a retrospective point of view, i personally believe her work very much correlates to modern society, in terms of the empowerment of women, along with their exploitation through the media and the cult of the celeb. secondly her works truely focus on her and her inner thoughts, tracey shop etc, which reflect greatly with society's changing perception of how others view you, owed very greatly to reality telly etc