Art Starter: Linda Tegg

If you could live in any art decade in history, when would it be? Now.

If you could have dinner with any artist (dead or alive), who would it be? I'll say Bruce Nauman and Joan Jonas (together or separately) in the late-'60s. If I could then hang around New York a little longer I would have dinner with Robert Mapplethorpe in the mid-'70s, before he got famous. Then maybe Sophie Calle in the '80s when she was a housekeeper… The list goes on.

What is your signature dance move? If I had to pick one it would be the pause-look move, somewhere between voguing and Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego. It has the ability to connect across the dancefloor with complete strangers and draw them into a brand of unholy contact improv. When that moment has come and gone I have a sequence of default moves – the archer, where I draw an arrow, then do a sort of catleap as it's released into a scrunched squat, where I pause hands on feet until following my arms up into a full vertical stretch. Recently I've been moving in counterpoint to the music. I genuinely enjoy this but it makes me look (unlike all my other moves) like a complete nut job.

If you weren't an artist what would you be doing? I would be doing the same thing, just having a hard time justifying it to my military superiors, unless of course they were US army intelligence in the '70s – those guys were open-minded.

What is your favourite art medium? I'm really enjoying working with mirrors right now.

WHAT: NEW13
WHEN & WHERE: Saturday 16 March to Sunday 12 May, ACCA