Re: Nothing in that Drawer (The Theater of Subject-Presence)

One other thing I like to think about when thinking about Tele-Absence:


While Judd's work indeed has a theatricality about it (it may seem anti-climactic at first, but part of the appeal of some of his white cubes is the fact that we as an audience must deal with these structures as objects in the world; so much of the work's success comes from the theater of object-presence), Tele-Absence moves through the theater of object-presence to a theater of subject-presence: in appraoching the object, I am aware that it is broadcasting its empty contents; this mimics my own awareness of the subjectivity of the Other; I presume the other thinks and feels, that the Other is capable of broadcasting the contents of her workings to me…

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