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Nauman's own nighttime video mapping of the studio (Fat Chance John Cage) became, against all odds, enjoyable. (How the stupidest idea in the world actualized as zen fun the most Nauman thing in the world.) Live-streaming a studio across continents/timezones sets up a similar potentiality - it's live! -but not knowing it will. An artwork with potential energy, all edging, audience set to wait for any small climax. No guarantees. In the meantime it's a studio displaced, potential artworks transmitted virtually to potential ends, metaphors for our modern age write themselves, a machine set to run, gesticulate, no guarantees for reward, just finding hope in darkness, Prisoner's Cinema, Nauman, it writes itself.
Nauman's own nighttime video mapping of the studio (Fat Chance John Cage) became, against all odds, enjoyable. (How the stupidest idea in the world actualized as zen fun the most Nauman thing in the world.) Live-streaming a studio across continents/timezones sets up a similar potentiality - it's live! -but not knowing it will. An artwork with potential energy, all edging, audience set to wait for any small climax. No guarantees. In the meantime it's a studio displaced, potential artworks transmitted virtually to potential ends, metaphors for our modern age write themselves, a machine set to run, gesticulate, no guarantees for reward, just finding hope in darkness, Prisoner's Cinema, Nauman, it writes itself.