Benoit Maire - Böcker

(…) It could be linked to something like responsibility, in the sense that, when you create a work, you’re the only person responsible for its existence vis-a-vis a third party, or an audience. You are simultaneously also responsible for an ideology, because a work is still a position with respect to the real and is therefore an ideology. Whereas the act of reducing oneself to a pathetic state makes you irresponsible. You put responsibility on the shelf. I was drunk, so I acted like an idiot. I’m forgiven. I had the right to act like an idiot. (…)