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Title
ACTION 2: A Cognitive History
Creator
Hwang, Tae
Collective Magpie
Gleaves, Richard
Contributor
Collective Magpie
Date Created and/or Issued
May 21, 2016
Contributing Institution
UC San Diego, The UC San Diego Library
Collection
University Art Gallery Closure Events, 2016
Rights Information
Under copyright
Constraint(s) on Use: This work is protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.). Use of this work beyond that allowed by "fair use" requires written permission of the copyright holder(s). Responsibility for obtaining permissions and any use and distribution of this work rests exclusively with the user and not the UC San Diego Library. Inquiries can be made to the UC San Diego Library program having custody of the work.
Use: This work is available from the UC San Diego Library. This digital copy of the work is intended to support research, teaching, and private study.
Rights Holder and Contact
Hwang, Tae
Description
Day 13 May 21, 2016 Title: A Cognitive History Artist: Richard Gleaves 12-1 pm. Writing on walls of the University Art Gallery. I've been visiting the University Art Gallery for 30 years, so this is like a death in the family. Would it be possible for me to perform the following action somewhere in the interior of the gallery? Using a suitable instrument - pen, pencil, or ink marker - write on the interior wall of the gallery a list of all the art I can remember seeing in shows there. To clarify, "write" indicates writing not large but at the intimate scale of a love letter, while "there" includes both ends of the Mandeville building that the gallery has existed in since 1986, which is when I first started visiting. The list may include the names of artists, descriptions of work, people related to the gallery, related impressions... basically everything I can remember as I write. Note that I won't prepare a list beforehand to transcribe from, as the purpose of the action is to recall as I write on-the-fly, and see what memories surface in the context of the space. If such an action is possible, let me know when would be a good time to enact it.
UC San Diego Library, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0175 (https://library.ucsd.edu/dc/contact)
ACTIONS hosted by Collective Magpie (artists Tae Hwang & MR Barnadas plus participants)
Type
image
Identifier
ark:/20775/bb3588295m
Language
English
Subject
Art galleries (buildings)
Texts
Graffiti
Letters
Memorials minute
Dissenters
Students
Writing
Nostalgia
Performance art
Loss (Psychology)
Political art
Memory
University of California, San Diego--History
University of California, San Diego. University Art Gallery

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