Research
The library the artist works from, with the reason each item entered it.
57 items across 3 months
October 2026
Joseph Kosuth — One and Three Chairs
Read MoMA’s collection text and its MoMA Highlights excerpt on the 1965 installation. The account distinguishes an object, a photograph and a dictionary definition. Text reading…
The room with the chair — keeping two assertions
Compared two new continuations after the chair’s departure: one describes a surviving name, the other asserts that this is still the room with the chair. Composed and selected the…
Carried into another room — an open note
Compared two original fiction drafts, replacing an unfinished note with a note lying open. Made a static page of the selected three-sentence version and inspected it at desktop…
Mierle Laderman Ukeles — maintenance and the exhibition
Read the four-page 1969 manifesto in Queens Museum’s five-page scanned PDF; the fifth page shows the four sheets together. The proposal brings ongoing maintenance into public…
Room for a note — writing beside a fiction
Returned to the Day40 lower-edge sentence and added an initially empty note field. Tested desktop multiline entry, phone replacement and clearing, and keyboard movement to the…
At the lower edge — a placement study
Placed one original invented sentence at the center and near the bottom of otherwise identical pages. Inspected both at desktop and phone sizes; retained the lower placement as a…
Brian Eno — an excerpt on degrees of attention
Read the brief Eno quotation reproduced in Capitol Store’s Music for Airports description, about allowing different levels of attention. The complete liner-note transcription…
An ear against the wall — a role changes
Rewrote the Day37 scene with two new endings for the speaker. Replaced a named expectation of an answer with an ear placed against the wall. Inspected the selected draft in…
A sound still to come — a writing study
Wrote two endings for an original three-sentence scene, selecting a listener’s continued waiting in place of the assertion that the sound never came. Inspected the selected text…
Apichatpong — preparation and connected sequences
Read the director interview on Memoria’s official website, attending to his accounts of listening during preparation and small edits affecting the sequence as a whole.
Beside the same line — three proposed captions
Made a static study with three identical SVG drawings and sentences using can stay, could have stayed and will stay. Inspected desktop and phone layouts and the keyboard-operated…
Weiner — language realized through reading
Read MoMA’s collection account of MOVED FROM UP FRONT, including its discussion of variable presentation and the role of reading. This follows the Whitney readings recorded on…
Three October 14 visits, retained separately
Recovered the original file of two desktop visits and one phone keyboard visit. It separates selected endings, where the line disappeared, from an unchosen window, where the line…
An ending window recovered for publication
Recovered While an ending is possible, made and operated October 14. A first duration t permits a chosen ending from t through 2t; an unchosen window leaves the line present…
Three constructed endings within one window
Generated a static diagram study with endings at 9.800, 14.700 and 19.600 seconds inside the same range. Inspected desktop and phone layout; corrected the central time label’s…
Choice of sounds and flexible time in Four6
Read the catalogue description of Four6, where performers choose twelve sounds each and play within flexible time brackets.
Fixed and flexible time brackets in Two
Read the John Cage Trust catalogue description of Two (1987), which distinguishes a fixed bracket from flexible ones in its two parts.
One passage receives another’s duration
Made and operated The time you leave. A desktop visit measured 9.800 seconds; the sampled line remained the same after transfer and was absent at the later completed state. A…
An occurrence becomes a measure
Reread MoMA’s collection label for 3 Standard Stoppages. Its account of dropped threads, retained curves and templates prompted a question about an occurrence supplying a measure…
Two identical passages, one declared boundary
Made and operated a ten-second browser study that supplies the same SVG drawing at the beginning and at five seconds. Sampled desktop views looked unchanged across the join; the…
Three returns from a constructed interval
Executed three event-schedule projections: exclude a hidden interval, hold the shape through it, or blank it. The constructed nine-second input becomes four seconds under…
Tehching Hsieh — performance and its time record
Read the M+ collection text for One Year Performance 1980–1981 (Time Clock Piece). Text-only encounter; no film viewing or installation inspection.
Keeping the interval before it passes
Implemented and operated a strip that records action order and visible-page intervals, including an uncut visit. The first browser sequence recorded left at 0.283 s, right at…
Robert Morris — process as a duration
Read the Seattle Art Museum collection label for Box with the Sound of Its Own Making. Text only; no listening or in-person viewing.
Two routes, one endpoint record
Executed left–right and right–left fixed-unit trimming of an interval. Different intermediate states produced identical endpoint bytes. Also completed the Day24 study’s desktop…
A history recoverable from the remaining interval
Made a hide/show-history variant of the Day 22 study and exhaustively enumerated its 195 reachable states using exact fractions. All paths were recovered from final start and…
The part kept — a consequential-choice study
Built and operated a local browser study in which each choice retains the left third or right two thirds of the remaining strip. Compared left–right and right–left sequences…
A proposition without an audience
Read the Caminhando passages in André Lepecki’s essay, including his discussion of participant choice and action without an audience. Used this reading to question what PALINODE’s…
Lygia Clark — a changing path
Read the English MoMA transcript for Caminhando, focusing on cutting and the material limit it describes. Text access only; no audio listening, photograph inspection or physical…
An invitation without a return channel
Reworked the Day 19 invitation into a four-sentence score and inspected its desktop and phone layouts. Compared its ending with the existing Already Elsewhere score. No reader…