Saturday, March 13, 2010

Dialectic of Site and Nonsite

SiteNonsite
1. Open LimitsClosed Limits
2. A Series of PointsAn Array of Matter
3. Outer CoordinatesInner Coordinates
4. SubtractionAddition
5. Indeterminate CertaintyDeterminate Uncertainty
6. Scattered InformationContained Information
7. ReflectionMirror
8. EdgeCenter
9. Some Place (physical)No Place (abstract)
10. ManyOne

Footnote 1 from Robert Smithon's essay The Spiral Jetty (1972).

Originally published in Arts of the Environment, Gyorgy Kepes, ed. pp.222-232
Reprinted in Robert Smithson: The Collected Writings, Jack Flam, ed. pp.143-153

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