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Jan Valentin Sæther | Against Documentation
Documentation · Art after the age of documentation · Self surveillance
· Map making in terra incognita · Arranged fragments of context · The
polyphonic variability of lumps of context · The subjective un-ground of
the document · Documentation as the sublimation of the artwork, achieved
by glossing over the missing context by composition · Self surveillance as
doctoring of the image in the mirror · The debt of forms of documentation
to Goebbels is like the debt of cosmologies to Einstein · Art after the
age of documentation ·
Envelope. This Is My Body (detail). Installation view. Exhibited at Galleri Sub Comandante, Oslo, 2002.
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