From the archive: Annette Michelson on Michael Snow - Artforum International
The working of his thought is thus concerned with that slow transformation of the notion of space which, beginning as a vacuum chamber, as an isotropic volume, gradually became a system inseparable from the matter it contains and from time. —Paul Valery, Introduction To The Method Of Leonardo Da VinciMy eye, tuning towards the imaginary, will go to any wavelengths for its sights. —Stan Brakhage, Metaphors On VisionTHERE IS A METAPHOR recurrent in contemporary discourse on the nature of consciousness: that of cinema. And there are cinematic works which present themselves as analogues of con...
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