Jakob S. Boeskov

"I don..t break rules because there are no rules"
"Art is the mystery of the darkness"
"Art is the technology of creating change by will"
“My earliest influences are hip-hop music, Tin Tin, American underground comics, and science fiction. I am now also influenced by more fancy stuff like Kierkegaard, Shakespeare, Nabokov, situationism”
"I felt like I was caught in a sci-fi novel that I had written myself” (about My Doomsday Weapon)
"We are alive and it really is quite wild. Do not believe the dying generation of hippies and liberals that have convinced several generations that history is something that took place in May 1968. Or the neo-cons that proclaimed we have reached the end of history. Both are wrong, the future has arrived: Jihadist beheadings in cyberspace, robotic urban warfare, action heroes and reality TV stars becoming politicians, and japanese hi tech solidiers walking around in a dessert in Iraq. The world is full of terror and beauty and there is really no excuse to be bored in this time and age .............
“Niels Bohr proved that you can’t measure a system without affecting it. It is called the principle of complementarity or something like that. This also applies to art. You cannot go out into the world with a camera and think that you can be objective. A camera radically changes all situations. There is really no difference between fiction and documentary cinema. Life is a film”
“I am Danish-Icelandic, my father served in the US army in the 1960íes. My mother is a dentist. I am born in 1973. Before I did art I was a cartoonist for 7 years. My parents tried to ban me from buying comics, the professors threw me out of art school, said what I did was not art. Now they say its art. Things change I guess”
“My biggest influences in art are Cindy Sherman, Hieronymus Bosch, Bill Drummond, Otto Dix. I like art that is very personal and with a sense of humor”
"I believe in folk art. I believe too much art is being kept consciously difficult. It relates to art as a bourgeois consumer product, where the logic is: the harder the art is to understand, the more exclusive the product is. I believe in abstraction and mystery, but I think a mystery is something you should be sucked into, hypnotized by. Generally I believe art should be returned to its original form, to the form of magic. Art can, like the cavemen understood, change our reality and our luck"
"For thousands and years art and magic has been inseparable and they still are"
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