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Summer Day Out 2012

“What has interested me all along is not the pronouncement of meaning but pointing toward the way meaning is formed.

I think everything is available as subject matter and I really mean everything. I concern myself with time, space, and things that are going on in the world, and everything. Not with a sense of trying to restate or interpret or express something, but to take something out of the world just long enough and use just enough of that to throw something out, bring something back, that I can call an image.

The essential quality of existence concerns where one is at any instant in time: that locates everything else. Location, as a phenomenon of space and time, has been transposed by most art forms into manifestations of visual equivalence: that is, as an experience located at the ends of the eyeballs. I am interested in transposing location directly into “present” time by eliminating things, the appearance of things, and appearance itself. The documents carry out that role using language, photographs and systems in time and location.”

Douglas Huebler

Hardstyle 2012 SUMMER MIX, JohnnyTwice

The Idea Of Art


“Non-artists often insist on something along with the art because they are not excited by the idea of art. They need that physical excitation along with the art to keep them interested. But the artist has that same obsessed interest in art that the physicist has in physics and the philosopher in philosophy.”

Joseph Kosuth

“I prefer, simply, to state the existence of things in terms of time and/or place.”

Douglas Huebler

More Or Less Interesting

“I think everything is available as subject matter and I really mean everything. I concern myself with time, space, and things that are going on in the world, and everything. Not with a sense of trying to restate or interpret or express something, but to take something out of the world just long enough and use just enough of that to throw something out, bring something back, that I can call an image.”

“The world is full of objects, more or less interesting; I do not wish to add any more.”

Douglas Huebler

Just Pointing

“What has interested me all along is not the pronouncement of meaning but pointing toward the way meaning is formed.”

Douglas Huebler

“For the meaning of something, consider its use.”

Ludwig Wittgenstein