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| Dan Graham! |
Figurative, 1965, Offset printed periodical
13 x 19 ½ inches [framed]
Edition of unknown size
Published within Harper’s Bazaar (March 1968)
Collection Specific Object / David Platzker, New York
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INVISIBLE INTUITIVE INTERPOLATED
"This knowledge is not known. In practices, it
has a status analogous to that granted fables and myths as the expression of
kinds of knowledge that do not know themselves. In both cases it
is a knowledge
that subjects do not reflect. They bear witness to it without being able to
appropriate it. They are in the end the renters and not the owners of their own
know-how. Concerning them it occurs to no one to ask whether there is
knowledge; it is assumed that there must be, but that it is known only by
people other than its bearers. Like that of poets and painters, the know-how of
daily practices is supposed to be known only by the interpreter who illuminates
it in his discursive mirror though he does not possess it either. It thus
belongs to no one.
It passes from the unconsciousness of its practitioners to the reflection of
non- practitioners without involving any individual subject. It is an anonymous
and referential knowledge, a condition of the possibility of technical or
scientific practices."
-The Practice of Everyday Life by Michel De Certeau
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| Novartis Campus, Associates in front of Dan Graham’s “Curve and Straight Line”; Basel, Switzerland |
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