September 2010
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“The creation of a documentary installation is…the true goal of any...”
– Open Systems: Rethinking Art (62).
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“The contemporary artist is once aga a technician, a producer. But now the artist...”
– Open Systems: Rethinking Art (62).
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“ART THAT PRACTISES THE MIMESIS OF THINKING, BY CONTRAST, CAUSES A SHIFT OF...”
– Open Systems: Rethinking Art (61).
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Thought Processes
Every installation represents a particular selection process that determines which objects are included and which excluded in an installation, and in which locations inside the space of the installation they must be placed according to the overall organisation of this space. The person responsible for the selection procedure is an individual artists, but every individual selection is supposed not...
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“Minimalist & post-Minimalist installations here become not only a place of...”
– Open Systems: Rethinking Art (60).
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“Hence, a summary becomes impossible, and the whole formalised and detailed...”
– Open Systems: Rethinking Art (60)
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“In search of an even more precise representation, the images become increasingly...”
– In reference to Ilya Kaakov, The Big Archive, 1993. In Open Systems: Rethinking Art (60).
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“The more one struggles to depict the system as a whole, the more one gets lost...”
– Ilya Kabokov. In Open Systems: Rethinking Art(60).
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“If, for example, artists are asked why they chose precisely this rule of...”
– Open Systems: Rethinking Art (60)
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“Thinking is understood to mean a step-by-step movement from one option to the...”
– Open Systems: Rethinking Art (56).
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“THINKING IS THE INFINITE PROGRESSIVE MOVEMENT, THE INFINITE ‘ET...”
– Open Systems: Rethinking Art (56)
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“An installation does not present itself to visitors as a stage that can only be...”
– Open Systems: Rethinking Art (56).
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“This sujectivity successfully survived its death by making the system itself the...”
– Open Systems: Rethinking Art (52).
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“If the creative act itself is part of a certain system and guided from the...”
– Open Systems: Rethinking Art (52).
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“Accordingly, the advanced art of this time understood the individual act of art...”
– Open Systems: Rethinking Art (52)
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“Minimal & Conceptual art: ‘In this context an individual artwork was...”
– Open Systems: Rethinking Art (52).
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“They chose…commodities that would sem expressions of individual taste....”
– Open Systems: Rethinking Art. (46).
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“Many artists of this period deliberately used the words ‘all’ (or...”
– Open Systems: Rethinking Art (46).
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“Open Systems: propositions that open themselves to the vulnerability of the...”
– According to Donna De Salvo. Open Systems: Rethinking Art (22)
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“A SYSTEM IS A HUMAN CONSTRUCTION, AND THUS FALLIBLE AND IMPERFECT”
– Donna De Salvo. Open Systems: Rethinking Art (22)
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“but the installation was not a one-off, the work was a ‘portable...”
– in reference to the work of Mel Bochner. Mark Godfrey. In Open Systems: Rethinking Art. (34).
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“Open systems is offered as a term that characterises the widespread...”
– Donna De Slavo - Open Systems: Rethinking Art history. (13)
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“A generative or repetitive system as a way of redefining the work of art, the...”
– Donna De Salvo. Open Studio: Rethinking Art c.1970. (11).
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“Works whose materials and means are determined less my traditional media that by...”
– Donna De Salvo. Open Studio: Rethinking Art c.1970. (13).
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“Many artists were eager to re-engage reference without forfieting the lessons...”
– Donna De Salvo. Open Systems: Rethinking Art c.1970. (13).
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Artist Advice - Seth Siegelaub
Seth Siegelaub
One of the things that I think is really important for an artist is how other artists look at him or her, and especially how the next generation looks at you - how you influence them. This is not given, but I do definately believe that it is how the younger generation of art makers are influenced by your work as much as possible and arguing for it. You really had to claim your...
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“One this is very clear to me - that art really is a social activity. It is not...”
– Seth Siegelaub. In The Playmaker. Art Monthly (327).
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Seth Siegelaub interviewed by John Slyce
JS: One of the moves that can specifically be ascribed to you was a move to bring the secondary forward to absolutely displace the primary. For example, The Xerox Book with Jack Wendler in 1968 and further to that, the catalogue - or the interviews - that were put forward in place of anything more concrete.
SS: It was also, in part, to do with the realisation that many people knew art (rightly...
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Art by Instruction and the Pre-History of 'do it' →
An online article by Bruce Altshuler.
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“Grahams dialectical conception of visual representation polemically collapsed...”
– Benjamin Buchloh. 1990. Conceptual Art: From the aesthetics of administration to the critique of institutions. (124). 