Confronted with the past document, we recognize a “just past”. That is, we find a proximity between what is happening now, and what has already taken place. It is a reflection of sorts, as when Dan Graham describes his audience to his audience, and we watch ourselves in his performance. The audiences who gather at the SKC in Belgrade in the 1970s to watch performances by Gina Paine and Joseph Bueys, the students who congregate on the Kent Sate campus to protest US the invasion of Cambodia — share an affinity. They arrive. Implied and implicated, together. Is this the meaning of greatness?
Future pasts
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misery of sophistication
June 9, 2008 · No Comments
This text is written as a discursive response to some impressions and observations collected during the KunstenFestivalDesArts in May 2007. It is shared with the participant of the KFDA reflection group but it is not published.
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About innocence of those who are looking into the future
June 9, 2008 · No Comments
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Innocence of the gaze directed forward, into the future, toward the world to come, is innocence of blindness for what is obvious - the fact of mortality. Glorious future is possible only if we do not see it. The same apply to the glorious past. Yet possibility of present moment depends on the indeterminacy of knowledge of both past and future. So what happen if we are in our “future gaze” confronted with the “past document”? What kind of circuit is created by a deference of what we will (not) see into what is already seen? I have a feeling that meaning of future greatness is readable only through the documents of what is made to be a past.
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