How do we understand a work? How does it come into being and how do these two aspects interrelate? "For me, editing is really important," says artist Helen Dowling, mostly active with video and video installation: "It’s kind of where everything happens, where work gets formed." What sounds like a very factual statement is an invitation to an open approach. We follow her on an explorative path about how she combines visuals and where they come from, about how to construct a narrative that is not in a strict sense narrational, about the relation between image and sound, the (non-)use of language, intuition, seduction, and about the fact that recording always means: giving something away.
Helen Dowling’s video The Queen of Lemons can currently be viewed via vimeo.com/466171881
Interviewed by Batsheva Ross and Olaf Winkler.
This piece is part of a series with interviews, readings, and other sound pieces which are regularly published on this site. More info on Level Five via www.levelfive.brussels
