dinsdag 11 oktober 2011

Ian Wilson - Oral Communication

http://www.frieze.com/issue/article/about_time/

"In 1968 Ian Wilson made his final sculpture. Since then, he has explored the idea of oral communication as an art form
Hearsay is a strange thing. You are told something, but it quickly becomes vague, translated, changed and reinterpreted – everybody has a slightly different version. The spoken word has a fragile beauty and is the foundation of myth. There are even some artists whose existence is almost mythical. [...]"

1 opmerking:

  1. yes! "Truth of the matter was, stories was everything, and everything was stories. Everybody told stories. It was a way of saying who they were in the world. It was their understanding of themselves. It was letting themselves know how they believed the world worked: a right way and a way that was not so right."

    source http://www.searchingforthewrongeyedjesus.com/

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