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?
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Future pasts
June 11, 2008 · No Comments
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