Interview with Mark Manders on Room, Constructed to Provide Persistent Absence, Online, 12 January 2023

Mark Manders is interviewed about his installation 'Room, Constructed to Provide Persistent Absence' (2001-2002) as a practical part of a class on Artwork Interviews for a Research Ethics seminar for the Master's programme in Fine Arts in Artistic Research (MFAAR) at Malmö Art Academy and Lund University, organised by Sanneke Stigter in collaboration with Moderna Museet. The work had been donated to the museum and this was the second time that it was put on display.

The interview is meant to learn more about the work’s material properties and spatial possibilities. Important topics discussed are the artist’s use of material, way of working, and his ideas on the way the work is installed in relation to the exhibition and the exhibition space. In addition, replacement of vulnerable items is discussed, the notion of time and the need to keep the work reminiscent of the time when it was made.