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Sue Webster and Tim Noble
From rags to riches to arseholes – it’s quite a tale.
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Their globe: eradicate extreme poverty
Why do you think your goal is important?
I guess as artists we've roamed the streets cold and hungry, and lived in the most disgusting conditions. I once caught pneumonia from renting a damp flat in the north of England. But these choices are a luxury we decide to make in order to live as free human beings in the world – choices that are a matter of life and death to those less fortunate than us.
Where did you find the inspiration for your design?
We were thinking about sex a lot as we were executing drawings of a sexual nature based on the illustrations from the classic 1970's book, The Joy of Sex. We were looking at the globe and to us it started to resemble a giant bottom/arse. First of all Tim decided to cast my womanly parts and to somehow incorporate this onto the globe; he inserted an egg into me and we had this fantastic image of the world somehow giving birth to life.
'You are born with a great talent that can influence and change the way people think – don't waste it.'
Since there are two of us I wanted to incorporate the male on the other side of the world. We tried to do this in many different ways but the asshole seemed the perfect solution to create a male and female equilibrium. Everybody has one – from a starving child to the Queen of England. It represents an entrance and an exit, they are positioned at polar opposites so you can crawl into one and emerge from the other.
How important is politics in art?
Art should be allowed to exist in its own right – an intriguing work has the power to provoke thought and argument and change the way we view the world. The beauty of a great work of art, and the right of such an artwork, is that it does not necessarily need a political agenda, yet in its simplest form it remains profoundly intriguing.
'An intriguing work has the power to provoke thought and argument and change the way we view the world.'
What message have you for any aspiring young artists or photographers about being 'political' and addressing social/economic issues?
You are born with a great talent that can influence and change the way people think - don't waste it.
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