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  • From: Rod Stasick <>
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  • Subject: [silence] Re: Re: Re: Every Day is a Good Day
  • Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2010 08:25:19 -0500
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I would think that the exhibition shows the beauty of chance
in the same way that Rolywholyover did - by the observer's
removal of the template of expectation.

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On шіл. 2, 2553 BE, at 05:31, Jeremy Millar wrote:

Stefano,

Thanks for your response; I hope you liked the images. Actually, there was no surprise at all that the exhibition turned out as it did, from me at least; it was exactly as I imagined it would be when I conceived the show a few years ago, and indeed had a certain inevitability about it. If there was any surprise at all, it was that even knowing this, I was still virtually speechless at the beauty of the installation...

BW,
J.

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Jeremy Millar  







On 2 Jul 2010, at 10:26, Stefano Pocci wrote:

On 07/02/2010 02:42 AM, Jeremy Millar wrote:
Dear all,

The exhibition 'Every Day is a Good Day' opened at Baltic, Gateshead, a couple of weeks ago, and we were lucky enough to have Laura Kuhn there, too. I think that the exhibition is breathtakingly beautiful, perhaps the most beautiful I've ever seen; as it was selected and installed used a random number generator this has given the curator in me some pause for thought.

I only have a couple of installation photographs at the moment — more to follow — and have put them on my site for those who might be interested:


With thanks and best wishes,
Jeremy








That's weird... or maybe not. I remember someone saying that even if Cage used random generators (be it the I-Ching book or the equivalent software) what did actually turn out in the end was very Cage-like, as if chance was seconding Cage strange taste (if he had one:-) So you shouldn't be surprised by the result you obtained.

I guess chance will always work fine with anything by Cage.
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Stefano

"Poor tools require better skills" - Marcel Duchamp






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