Finally, if the question is ‘do artists need to read such-and-such’ type of literature, the answer is definitely ‘no.’ You never know where ideas come from. I believe in chaos for answers. And the most important thing today, when our tastes are calculated by algorithms, is to find things that you are not looking for. It is always good to follow something that you are not looking for, because if you are looking for something then you are just narrowing, narrowing, narrowing your own perspective. If you only listen to Beyoncé you will only listen to Beyoncé at the end. It is the same for theory, the same for ideas, the same for any material that we need as artists, or curators, or viewers to keep being alive.
<blockquote>“The question I (artist, Ryder Richards) will ask (curator, Nicolas Bourriaud) is wether or not artists should read critical theory?”</blockquote>
In this excerpt I (Rafael Fajardo) am interpreting Bourriaud’s response with the word “calculated” to mean both “sensed” and “generated” at the same time.