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that do away with natural resources and cause unemployment, although the progress made in many fields of science today allows us to save lives and foster the development of all of mankind, but we need to know the price we are paying for all this.
GM It seems to me that your procedures are often largely technical; this occurs in the creative process in general, but in your case it seems particularly significant because it is technically how you induce and summon chance and coincidence. What role do textures play in this? And what about changes in the working process?
FS The technical approach we adopt in each work amounts to decision-making on language, as only through language does it unfold and undergo transfor- mations and only from language can we come close to meaning. It is therefore necessary to include error and chance in this process of unfolding, as a means of accepting the limits that exist within the very process of execution, just as it is a manner of giving way to the unforeseen, the unexpected and the fortuitous as part of the real.
GM Do you have full control over the work when you send it off to be produced? How are these “errors” in the process assessed?
FS In general, what characterises my work is an initial impulse that is persistent and therefore uncontrolled and is generally tied to an experimental process. I advance slowly as I discover effective forms for defining my works and that takes time, as you are forced to tread unexplored paths. In the develop- ment of the creative process I need above all to be surprised and often it
is only errors that point out unconsidered paths to me. However, in general technical problems are not what is essential either, as we know that certain poetics only emerge through the modifications that arise unexpectedly during the process. In my view, the main difficulty lies in discovering how poetic construction takes place, as any creation is, in a way, an exercise in divination that requires concentration and when it occurs it is necessary to pay attention to the interweaving of links, actions, matter, times, techniques and people that must act and relate to each other accurately and precisely. There is a rhythm and a tempo in everything, an appropriate time. There are many moments when difficulties make it impossible for anything to come off and we see how everything seems to grind to a halt; however, sometimes these initial obstacles suddenly become the strength we need to find an unexpected way out. We are therefore speaking of a type of poetic luck, which does not always happen.
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