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Isabel Rawsthorne John Everard 1933

Josef Albers Anni Albers in Florida 1938–9

Otto Herbert Hajek Raumknoten 64 1958

“Struck by the apparition she burst out laughing. The laughter of childbirth. What was making her jubilant was the "yes, I'm here" of presence, non-refusal, non-retreat. Yes, said the world. Yes, said the timid bell tower behind the build­ ings. Yes I'm coming, said one window then another. Is seeing the supreme enjoyment? Or else is it: no-Ionger-not-seeing?” — Hélène Cixous, Jacques Derrida, Savoir from Veils

Man Ray The Starfish 1928

“She had been born with the veil in her eye. A severe myopia stretched its mad­ dening magic between her and the world. She had been born with the veil in her soul. Spectacles are feeble forks only just good enough to catch little bits of real­ity. As the myopic people know, myopia has its shaky seat in judgment. It opens the reign of an eternal uncertainty that no prosthesis can dissipate. From then on she did not know. She and Doubt were always inseparable: had things gone away or else was it she who mis-saw them? She never saw safely. Seeing was a tottering believing. Everything was perhaps. Living was in a state of alert.” — Hélène Cixous, Jacques Derrida, Savoir from Veils

Lygia Clark Diálogo: Óculos 1968   «Lygia Clark’s interest in researching human interplay and group-dynamic processes also led to her designing diverse objects that were applied as a means of discourse and communication. The «eyeglasses» […] not only help sharpen vision, they produce a new way of seeing.» [x]

Bertrand Cavalier Untitled (Permanent Concern #11) 2021

Fazal Sheikh Vrindavan, India 2005 [x]

hold on to the subject. The mind quite easily wishes to switch to the next tangentially connected thought or story. * Then, before you know it you are lost. Or perhaps what you want is to be lost? We don't know what we're doing and we're doing it. * We don't know what we are doing and we are doing it, and everything is stolen anyway. From 'Cheap Lecture' by Jonathan Burrows and Matteo Fargion, commissioned by Cultureel Centrum Maasmechelen and Dans in Limburg, 2009. 'Cheap Lecture' is a rhythmic spoken performance with music, which borrows its structure from John Cage's 'Lecture On Nothing'. The shape of the text above is a visual image of the rhythm of the words when spoken, and each line represents a beat. The gaps between printed words suggest the flow or hesitation in our speaking, and an asterisk is a counted pause.

Mariana combing June's hair (Mariana Romo-Carmona and June Chan) Robert Giard 1988

Christo Valley Curtain 1970-1972

Eva Hesse Herman Landshoff 1968

Hiroshi Sugimoto Marion Palace, Ohio 1980

Kazuo Kawasaki トントン / Ton Ton 1984

Jørn Utzon Espansiva Hellebæk, Denmark 1969 “The Espansiva system was designed to offer the user complete freedom of choice for planning their building as well as for extending and altering it at any time. […] Each type of module configuration has different circulation within its larger composition. This allows the compositions to both inform and be informed by the configurations intended use. This flexibility of purpose was Utzon’s main concept while designing Espansiva.” [x]

Germano Celant Art Povera, Praeger Publishers New York, NY, and Washington, D.C. 1969

Agnes Martin Untitled 1960

Gruppo T exhibition at Galleria Pater with Lucio Fontana Alfio Di Bella Milan, 1960 “…the Group T (so called referring to the concept of time, as a new variable of becoming in a space-time dimension that fully involves the user), while relying on a collectivist idea of the artistic work that led to the proposition of works with the signature "Gruppo T", never completely dissociated production from individual personalities as it did elsewhere for other groups who chose to sign their works only and exclusively behind a sign. For more than a decade the works and actions of Group T have raised the problem of the habitability of the work (environment-work) and its interaction with the spectator, becoming the pioneers of operating modes then gained in the next decade.” [x]

Gianni Colombo [Gruppo T] Strutturazione acentrica 1962