"I don't need to put it on my to-do list, I just do it" - Eugene Choi talking about dancing.

 

"I think my work is about intimacy and connection... but isn't all work?.. good work at least?" - Eugene Choi

 

Eugene Choi is totally rad and compassionate and genius!

We sung michael jackson - heal the world and talked around:

* being anemic and still being friendly

* making  a plan

* residencies

* plaster slabs

* art school

* sydney festival

* ambition

* Scum Ballet at artspace

* having a practise as an artist and having side gigs as a performer

* underbelly arts festival with marcus whale

* being an inert body vs becoming a performer

I call myself a sculpter even those most of my work is performative - Eugene Choi

* family and making work about them

* making work to avoid awkward conversations

* being confused

"what means a lot to me is living as an asian in Australia" - Eugene Choi

* language barriers

* languages of intimacy

* growing up in the north shore

I hate the cheese but i'm all cheese - Eugene Choi

* the cost of the always working parent

* internalised racism

* being passionately melancholic

I'm not making work for them, I'm making work for me - Eugene Choi

* doing a lot of things

* effort and hope

Aren't we all crazy? - Eugene Choi

 

* thinking about love and making work

* deadlines

* controlling your work

* juxtaposing your object with your body

* video work

* isolating oneself while working

* feeling responsible for people

* clichès

* making autobiographical work

* drinking lots of water

Ideally I just wanna be making work all the time - Eugene Choi

 

people mentioned:

* Ellen Davies