Name: Dan Tague Where are you from: New Orleans, LA Where do you live/work: Brooklyn, NY Your website (if any):www.dantague.com
How do you normally come up with an idea or project for your artwork?
Can you run us briefly through your thought process and work process?
Serendipity plays a big part in my work. For instance, on a recent trip
to the stock market, in the midst of a completely stressed environment,
I noticed a man showing pictures of the beach to a co-worker. This disparate
arrangement of images sparked the idea to put the sound of the stock market
into a seashell. The image may be opposite but the sound is very similar.
Do you have an unrealized dream project? (no matter how improbable,
absurd, costly, etc. it might seem)
I would like to project images of US policies that have caused war, unrest,
civil injustice nationally and internationally since 1974. In front of
these images would be a fluid disco dancer practicing moves to a song played
on headphones seemingly oblivious to the images and sounds of the scenes
portrayed.
What is your solution to artist’s or writer’s block?
Get out of the studio, get a drink, and change my surroundings. And if
that doesn’t work I lock myself inside and watch campy 80s movies
for days.
What is your favorite website and why?
EBay! I can find anything I need to make my absurd art possible. 3-inch
model of a B52 bomber, raccoon tail cap, pink boxing gloves, lawn flamingos,
Pee Wee Herman bobble head, bowling pins…
