I'm trying to put together a lecture for the class I'm teaching on the art of documentation. I'm trying to focus on two approaches that I think are especially rewarding - documentation as residue and as distillation. But brain is apparently not in discourse-production mode today; I'm just recycling art and artists we've already discussed to death over the semester. And we've discussed quite a few projects, from Fluxus to Amsterdam Realtime.
Right now, I've got about three examples:
1) Gordon Matta-Clark's videos about his building projects
2) Volkmar Klien and Ed Lear's Traces of Fire
3) Richard Long's textworks
...But I really need more. I've talked about Robert Smithson so much that even he'd be tired of hearing about himself - but maybe another artist who works with landscape? Andy Goldsworthy, maybe? Suggestions? Say, before Wednesday afternoon PST?
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