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Performances in the Garden
In 1977, I attended the first-ever live satellite broadcast realised by an artist, a project that had emerged from years of collaboration between Sony and Nam June Paik. Although it was a private gathering, this demonstration of a technological breakthrough was the principal opening event of documenta 6 in Kassel. There I saw Charlotte Moorman… Read more
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Labelling by Artists
When is an artist an epigone, and when a follower? The distinction matters, because the former term carries an unfavorable connotation and is likely to be taken as an insult by the artist concerned. According to the conventional definition, an epigone is a follower who lacks originality and copies the ideas of others. But over… Read more
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The Rhetoric of Today’s Urgencies
In De Groene Amsterdammer of early July, music critic Bas van Putten looks back on the Holland Festival by asking: Did this edition of the Holland Festival once again succeed in staying ahead of its time? The question implies that a festival with one of the Netherlands’ most illustrious histories has a mission—one in which… Read more