In conversation with Tony Godfrey
In July 2021, the writer/curator and a personal friend, Tony Godfrey, invited me to a conversation on art and process. In the midst of a pandemic and a lockdown in the Philippines, we made a date to talk, while apart—he in Batangas, I at home in Quezon City. Below is an excerpt to our conversation and a link to Godfrey’s Art Talks South East Asia.
Tony Godfrey. Hi Jill. I have to admit this feels a bit weird and disembodied. I enjoy the experience of sitting opposite the person I am interviewing or sitting next to them when we talked in public last year at ALT art fair. But the pandemic keeps us at home, stuck to our laptops. So here I am at my desk, on my own typing away. What are you up to? How are you?
Jill Paz. I am drinking coffee and the energy of my home/studio space has become nervous anxiety as I prepare for international travel, not knowing what to expect with all the govt. protocols in the USA and, on my return, the Philippines
TG. Of course, you are just about to fly back to the USA for two months. What will you be doing and seeing there? Whenever I go back to the UK, apart from seeing my children and friends, drinking warm beer and eating English fish and chips I spend as much time in museums as I can. Having lived in London I am used to seeing a lot of art – old art, international contemporary art. I really miss now that I live in the Philippines.
Just before the world closed down, Tony Godfrey and I, enjoying a conversation at ALT Philippines in February 2020.
Read more of our conversation and Art Talks South East Asia here:
