{"id":48,"date":"2016-09-18T10:57:01","date_gmt":"2016-09-18T14:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/experimentalstudio.ca\/foundations\/?p=48"},"modified":"2022-02-27T15:39:03","modified_gmt":"2022-02-27T20:39:03","slug":"collections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/experimentalstudio.ca\/foundations\/2016\/09\/18\/collections\/","title":{"rendered":"Collections"},"content":{"rendered":"

“The banal, the quotidian, the obvious, the common, the ordinary, the infra-ordinary, the background noise, the habitual, [\u2026] How are we to speak of these common things, how to track them down, how to flush them out, wrest them from the dross in which they are mired, how to give them meaning, a tongue, to let them, finally, speak of what it is, who we are.”<\/p>\n

-Georges Perec, Species of Spaces, 1974<\/p>\n

Georges Perec<\/b> (French: <\/small>[pe\u0281\u025bk, p\u025b\u0281\u025bk]<\/a><\/span>;[1]<\/a><\/sup> 7 March 1936 \u2013 3 March 1982) was a French novelist<\/a>, filmmaker<\/a>, documentalist<\/a>, and essayist<\/a>. He was a member of the Oulipo<\/a> group. His father died as a soldier early in the Second World War<\/a> and his mother was murdered in the Holocaust<\/a>, and many of his works deal with absence, loss, and identity, often through word play<\/a>.[2]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

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From Georges Perec, An Attempt at an Inventory of the Liquid and the Solid Foodstuffs Ingurgitated by Me in the Course of the Year Nineteen Hundred Seventy Four<\/em>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Dean Baldwin, Attempt at an Inventory of the Liquid and Solid Foodstuffs Ingurgitated by Me in the Course of the Year Two Thousand and Six (After Perec),<\/em> 2007.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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Dean Baldwin, Attempt at an Inventory of the Liquid and Solid Foodstuffs Ingurgitated by Me in the Course of the Year Two Thousand and Six (After Perec)” Installation of 2042 Digital C-Prints Photography<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

On Kawara<\/b> (\u6cb3\u539f \u6e29<\/span> Kawara On<\/i>, December 24, 1932 \u2013 July 10, 2014) was a Japanese<\/a> conceptual artist<\/a> who lived in New York City<\/a> from 1965. Kawara belonged to a broadly international generation of Conceptual artists<\/a> that began to emerge in the mid-1960s, stripping art of personal emotion, reducing it to nearly pure information or idea and greatly playing down the art object. Along with Lawrence Weiner<\/a>, Joseph Kosuth<\/a>, Hanne Darboven<\/a> and others, Kawara gave special prominence to language.[2]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n