From a live performance of Foucault’s interview in Amsterdam in 2012, How We Behave has developed into an extensive interview project addressing the different ways that individuals experiment with unconventional life patterns - at work, through alternative family structures, through new forms of intimacy, sexual behavior, sociality and political engagement. Foucault’s concern was not with ‘lifestyle’ but with what he considered to be the politically urgent question of our time—how we model our subjectivity and invent new ways of life and relations to others that can be understood as resistance to power. 

Subjects were drawn from the professional and friendship network of the researcher and If I Can't Dance, and often through collaborations with locally based organizations such as The Kitchen (New York) the Nucleus of Subjectivity PUCE (São Paulo) and USC Roski School of Fine Arts (Los Angeles). A number of interviews with individuals connected to Foucault such as Paul Rabinow, Leo Bersani and Sylvère Lotringer address the original Vanity Fair piece, or the context in which Foucault gave the interview or a response in their work to his ideas about subjectivity and aesthetics.

Biography
Grant Watson is Senior Curator and Research Associate at the Institute of International Visual Arts in London (Iniva). As curator at the Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen (M HKA) 2006 - 2010 his projects included Santhal Family: Positions Around An Indian Sculpture, Cornelius Cardew, Search for the Spirit, Textiles Art and the Social Fabric and the Keywords lecture series. He was previously the Curator of Visual Arts at Project in Dublin between 2001 and 2006 where he focused on solo commissions from contemporary Irish and international artists as well as themed projects such as a series on communism that included an exhibition, book and radio programme. Watson has worked with modern and contemporary Indian art since 1999, researching this subject for Documenta 12, as well as co curating Reflections on Indian Modernism a series of exhibitions, talks and events at the Office for Contemporary Art Norway (OCA). The touring exhibition Nasreen Mohamedi: Notes is the first installment of this programme. Watson studied Curating and Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths College London where he is currently a PhD candidate.