Greg de Cuir Jr., who guest-curated General Relativity, Take Two for e-flux Film, posed a set of questions to the five artist duos participating in the program—Maria Iorio and Raphael Cuomo, OJOBOCA (Anja Dornieden and Juan David Gonzalez Monroy), doplgenger (Isidora Ilic and Bosko Prostran), Claudrena Harold and Kevin Jerome Everson, and Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige—to reflect on the relationship between their shared life and collaborative practice. What follows is a compilation of their responses, lightly edited for clarity and length.
As de Cuir Jr. writes: “We do not often have opportunities to experience artist duos in dialogue with each other. The artist duo is a fascinating, hybrid body. Each of these bodies is a discrete compound organism, yet they are related in the ways they engage with each other and the materials they choose to work on. This text is an opportunity to stage an encounter across distances both aesthetic and geographical, but also an invitation to discover commonalities in ways of moving in and acting upon the constantly fluctuating ecosystems of film and art. Our aim was to let their thoughts and words bounce off of each other in unpredictable fashion, to deeply understand what they perhaps take for granted about themselves as they operate, and of course to celebrate their voices beyond the visual sublimity of the works that they create.”
Read the full interview on the e-flux Notes website.
