Dirk Snauwaert

Vergara invites Dirk Snauwaert to express an idea of freedom in relation to artistry and art itself. Snauwaert talks about the paradox hidden today in the idea of artistic freedom. For instance, how does an artist locate himself in an aesthetic, political and economic context? Snauwaert explains how he and others try to counter the art market’s logic. Finally, he interprets the question about the artist’s freedom as a romantic or idealistic question, and states that the artist’s freedom is situated in a private zone, like Marcel Broodthaers depicted in ’Documenta 5’. The sounds in the background are of the opening of Panamarenko’s former Antwerp Airship Building in Antwerp on 29 June 2002, during which the interview takes place.