Q. To begin with, could you describe this work?
A. Yes, of course. What I've done is change a glass of water into a full-grown oak tree without altering the accidents of the glass of water.
A. Yes, of course. What I've done is change a glass of water into a full-grown oak tree without altering the accidents of the glass of water.
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Q. It looks like a glass of water.
A. Of course it does. I didn't change its appearance. But it's not a glass of water, it's an oak tree.
A. Of course it does. I didn't change its appearance. But it's not a glass of water, it's an oak tree.
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Q. Was it difficult to effect the change?
A. No effort at all. But it took me years of work before I realised I could do it.
A. No effort at all. But it took me years of work before I realised I could do it.
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Q. Do you consider that changing the glass of water into an oak tree constitutes an art work?
A. Yes.
A. Yes.
Q. What precisely is the art work? The glass of water?
A. There is no glass of water anymore.
Q. The process of change?
A. There is no process involved in the change.
Q. The oak tree?
A. Yes. The oak tree.
1 comentário:
Esta vi pessoalmente numa bienal ou coisa que o valha, em São Paulo.Como foi na OCA do Ibirapuera, não era Bienal, mas inesquessível...
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