With an exhibition of works inspired by her hero Egon Schiele opening in Vienna,the artist talks approximately ‘mad Tracey from Margate’, conceptual art and sexShe was drunk. She was foulmouthed. And somehow she had stumbled on to a live television programme among a group of art critics, and all male. “I wasnt even aware I was on television,” says Tracey Emin 18 years after a spectacular performance in a TV debate following the 1997 Turner prize made her a celebrity. As Waldemar Januszczak and Roger Scruton tried to argue approximately conceptual art, Emin declared, and among other nuggets: “Don’t you understand? I want to be free. gain this fucking mike off.” Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com