FWD: Haacke for hackers

[anechoic <kim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>HANS HAACKE Statement
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>...make something which experiences, reacts to its environment,
>changes, is non-stable...
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>...make something indeterminate, which always looks different, the
>shape of which cannot be predicted precisely...
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>...make something which cannot 'perform' without the assistance of
>its environment...
>
>...make something which reacts to light and temperature changes, is
>subject to air currents and depends, in its functioning, on the
>forces of gravity...
>
>...make something which the 'spectator' handles, with which he plays
>and thus animates...
>
>...make something which lives in time and makes the 'spectator'
>experience time...
>
>...articulate: something natural...
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>Cologne, January 1965
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>(Note the date!  I copied this from the wonderful catalog for the
>semi-recent "Force Fields: phases of the kinetic" show at the
>Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art, and they in turn copied it from
>the Hans Haacke catalog from a 1995 show in Barcelona.)
>--