Oscar mathieu le Bussy

Resident Bosacademie

Is there a specific environment or material that's integral to your work?
The body, and more precisely the materiality of skin permeates my work across and through tattoo, text, translation and transfaggotry.

How do you collaborate with other artists?
I have collaborated with other artists as a translator, a production administrator, an assistant, an organiser, a conflict mediator, a theater writer, an illustrator, a cook, a performer, an artist.

How do you develop your art skills?
Trial and error, curiosity, DIY, peer support, obsession, collaboration.

What motivates you to create?
Tying and untying knots, softly pushing at tender spots, scratching surfaces, opening possibilities of expression beyond conventional language and presence, mediating frustration, searching for pleasure, radical honesty, camouflaging lies as storytelling and vice-versa, dealing with the absurd, going with the flow, going against the grit, connecting dots, connecting with people.