Last May UK-based Toni Sant gained national notoriety for correctly predicting that Finland would win the Eurovision Song Contest. Dr Sant is also (lesser) known as a lecturer in Performance & Creative Technologies at the University of Hull’s Scarborough Campus as well as founder and creative director of the MaltaMedia Online Network.
This week he returns briefly to Malta to evoke the ghosts of dead conceptual artists and rattle some more cultural skeletons, just for the fun of it. Toni Sant is presenting a collaborative research project entitled “Objects Found or Lost?”, on Saturday 5 and Sunday 6 August at the MITP Theatre at 9pm. This is being held in conjunction with SUPA 2006 and is part of the Malta Arts Festival – Summer 2006 organised by the Malta Council for Culture and the Arts. See www.foundorlost.com for details. However, he is most looking forward to seeing Xtruppaw’s next live gig at Natasha’s in San Gwann on 29 July.
His blog and weekly podcasts can be found at www.tonisant.com
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How old are you? Star sign and date of birth?
Age is relative. I don’t do star signs. If I did, I’d be a Sagittarius… just because it’s the hardest one to spell.
What would you like to be doing in 10 years’ time?
Living.
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Living.
What is your favourite occupation?
Living.
What is your greatest fear?
Disease.
What is it that you most value in your friends?
Friendship.
How would you like to die?
Not living.
What is your greatest extravagance?
Living.
What is your greatest regret?
Saying yes to this interview.
What is your most treasured possession?
Life.
Which talent would you most like to have apart from the ones you already have?
Immortality.
What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
Money/wealth/possessions.
Where would you like to live?
At home with my monkey and my dog.
What is your most marked characteristic?
I link therefore I am.
Who are your heroes/ heroines in real life?
No more heroes, please!
Andrea: Unhappy the country that has no heroes.
Galileo: No, unhappy the country that needs heroes.
From Bertolt Brecht's play Life of Galileo.
What is it that you most dislike?
Interviews like this, of course.
What is your motto?
See http://www.tonisant.com
