past future split attention

Wednesday, 11 July 2012

Work submited by Grupo de texto poético, Spain, to the exhibition Arte Postal, Bienal de Sao Paulo, 1981, organized by Walter Zanini and Julio Plaza

past future split attention: This blog takes its title from Dan Graham's work Past Future Split Attention 1971. 'Premise: Two people who know each other are in the same space. While one person predicts continuously the other person's behaviour, the other person recounts (by memory) the other's past behaviour. Notes: Both performers are in the present, so knowledge of the past is needed to continuously deduce future behaviour (in terms of causal relation). For one to see the other in terms of the present (attention) there is a mirror reflection or closed figure-eight feedback/feed-ahead loop of past/future. One person's behaviour reciprocally reflects/depends upon the other's, so that each one's information of his moves is seen in part as a reflection of the effect that their own just-past behaviour has had in reversed tense as perceived from the other's view of himself.'

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