Chosen book nº1:
'Peruvian Ground Drawings',
Kunstraum München E.V. [1974]
Outcome nº1:
'Walk A Line',
2 prints with dead ends
Outcome Bonus:
'Walk A Line',
hikes with no dead end
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To explain means (...) "tracing" a fact "back to its principles,
so that the individual fact does not remain in its isolation
Peruvian Ground Drawings, Kunstraum München E.V. [1974]
It requires first of all the faculty of abstract thinking; moreover it demands a knowledge of arithmetic and of topographical methods.
Peruvian Ground Drawings, Kunstraum München E.V. [1974]
...the question arises whether a self-limitation of the cognitive urge would not be more salutary.
Peruvian Ground Drawings, Kunstraum München E.V. [1974]
Paul Kosok, who 35 years ago was the first to call attention to the mysterious drawings, called them "the largest astronomy book of the world"
Peruvian Ground Drawings, Kunstraum München E.V. [1974]
A further fact arising from this intended purpose of the line is that it is valid on only a single day every year (it cannot also be used as a summer solstice line, since the conditions of the horizon are different at both ends of the lines) and that the authors thus allowed themselves the tremendous luxury of a line which for 364 days of the year was of no practical use.
Peruvian Ground Drawings, Kunstraum München E.V. [1974]
In other words, an observer sees all the more, the greater this vocabulary is, the greater his optical experience is, the more possibilities he has to handle incoming impulses meaningfully
Peruvian Ground Drawings, Kunstraum München E.V. [1974]
...a sun-worshipping dynasty, that conquered the moon-worshippers of the coast, without destroying their native culture and way of living.
Peruvian Ground Drawings, Kunstraum München E.V. [1974]
It is not, however, certain that this will be possible in the future. If the rapid process of destruction continues and the stepping over and on the figures is not prevented, we shall never know what lies behind this great mystery.
Peruvian Ground Drawings, Kunstraum München E.V. [1974]
...the circular process of understanding itself (...) in which we understand the individual words against the background of a projected sentence which will, however, not be complete until we have finished reading each of the words one by one. The same circle (or spiral) holds, it seems to me, for our comprehension of the past.
Words by Frederic Jameson, quoted by Joseph Kosuth in his text "Work", The Fox 3 [1976].
