Ahh another interview in a German magazine! This time in a really sleek-looking classy horror culture magazine called Virus. I wish I read German because some of their articles looked really super interesting. Luckily for you I'm posting scans and a translation! I do so much for you, it's how much I love you all.
The first time I see your work, I wonder if use your own creations?! Are you more the guy in the background with the weird ideas and the evil plans, or are you always around with testing, modifying, improving (with some voluntary girls, of course) driven by your own passion and lust?!
“Yes definitely. The sculptures are made to stand on their own of course, but there is a performance art aspect as well. Their forms are thrown into stark contrast against the living flesh and when their function is utilized it causes an immediate and powerful reaction, not only for the girl within it but from any hapless onlookers also.”
As always people who are not so familiar with BDSMscene suppose that you are want to humiliate your probant. What is your motivation? Your own lust, the lust of the tied persons (mainly girls I suppose) or both? Tell us something about the reactions/experiences of the users.
“Certainly the humiliation of a submissive is part of the fun but you are right it goes much deeper than that, as anyone who engages in these sorts of activities can attest to. Breaking a person’s will and subjecting their body to pain can be a stimulating, and almost spiritual experience. The exchange of power can be intoxicating, the revelations glimpsed in those moments can be enlightening. Probably a lot of people just see it as depraved or are frightened of it, but as any Tantric adept will tell you, you have to plumb the depths of the human experience in order to truly find the strength and wisdom to see beyond it.”
I must admit, that I don't know any comparable art stuff like yours. Are there any inspirations, examples from other artists. Do you have any names for our audience to explore the world of torture devices?
“While my list of inspirational artists is extensive, there are none that actually create torture devices. To be honest when the idea first began to congeal for me I was so overcome with paranoia that somewhere else, at that very moment some artist was engaged in creating their own comparable devices; as if we were both tapped into the zeitgeist. I was utterly desperate to complete them before this imagined rival. But now that I have a sizable body of work behind me I realize that in fact I am the consummate outsider. And even though many people obviously enjoy my work and even more are affected by it, I remain a pariah.”
Beside your incredible big machines you are constructing smaller things to explore the wicked realms of SM realms. Please give us a small overview.
“My smaller sculptures are mostly functional as well. Recently I made a scourge from some of my broken chainsaw chains. I tried it out on myself briefly but it is less of a useful implement and more for intimidation. I’ve always made smaller restraints and devices and recently I’ve been getting a lot of requests for regular furniture and more abstract non-functional pieces that display my unique sense of autonomic aesthetics. And of course there is the “Holy Scripture” series, which are paddles made from the sacred texts.”
You told me about a paddle made out of holy material. Think with this stuff you often offend other people. Do you have had serious trouble with your art so far? Do you think in art should everything allowed whats possible or are there some tabus which even shouldn't treat by art?
“I’m certain of it. But maybe those are exactly the people that need to be offended. Not for their own sake really, but to expose them. Because if deep down they didn’t harbor nagging doubts about the authenticity of those very texts I don’t think it would bother them as much. I mean if their god was real, why should he care if some asshole makes a paddle out of a material object that just happens to be printed with his supposed words? I mean think about this, some of these books I use are in bad shape before I fix them; the covers are falling apart, spines broken, pages missing. If that was really the inspired word of god shouldn’t he have an interest in keeping that book from rotting and being damaged? But no, instead we find that, just like every other book written by man, they fall apart eventually. Besides, the religious use those books to throttle people metaphorically, they may as well be used to do the same thing literally.
My art is always getting me in trouble. Whether it is stealing the scrap metal that goes into it or outdoor demonstrations or the screams that sometimes accompany filming the performances, the police have had quite a lot to say about my art this past year. Which really just affirms that I’m on the right path. My art is all about transcending limits and riding that razor edge of what the status quo considers taboo. My art is about provoking emotion and forcing the empathetic imagination to someplace it doesn’t necessarily want to go.”
Often the audience identify the art with the psyche of the creator. Like all the other artist of this column, I suppose you aren't a misanthropic lunatic (aren't you?), but what's the fascination of this kind of sex? The unholy alliance of lust, domination and of course love?!
“Oh I’m definitely a misanthropic lunatic, or maniac to be more precise. A large part of the creative process for me is allowing the mania of bipolar disease to flourish, and then directing it, sublimating it into art. Likewise with the lust that compels me to dominate these girls. I could just restrain them and punish them and fuck them and the experience alone would be the end to those means. But it is such a powerful force, that dominant lust, why not use it, sublimate it, raise it to the level of high art? Some artists take the mundane world around them and create art from it. I prefer to take only the most extreme moments of the human condition and then immortalize it.”
If anybody is hooked by this interview, where can he buy your brilliant stuff?
“You can contact me directly through my website at KillianSkarr.com. Thank you for the very insightful questions. It does me a lot of good to define all of the craziness that goes on in my skull.”
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