#dan graham.

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• taking corporate architecture and combining it with playgrounds, in order to create s/t playful and fun

• "all creative writers and artists have a special relationship with their mother"

• "my mother was in denial of the body, and my work became about the body"

• Pavilions: combining street furniture (eg bus shelter and telephone booth) with the barcelona pavilion

• involved w/landscape arch

• "the first museums were actually gardens"

• began to reject minimalism

• light in relationship to outdoor and indoor light is important to his work

• favorite aritst from the past is Jan van Eyck; use of of concave/convex two-way mirror comes from Eyck

• is against the objectness of minimal art

• work can change in time as spectators saw themselves moving around; self-consciousness

• when using 2 way mirrors, unlike 1 way mirrors for corporations, it becomes a heterotopia (a pleasure situation)

• thinks he is recreating childhood desires: as an alienated Jewish kid in jersey, he grew up with eastern european children, which he saw as a type of paradise.

• turning alienation into pleasure

• Rock My Religion (1982-4)

• Mounted a camera on a moving car going through suburbia, and asked Glenn to do a soundtrack that is simultaneously arcadian pastoral and nauseating (as in being in your car as a child with your parents)

• "all my best works have been collaborations"

• "my work is cultural history"

• "when i do work, its often in opposition to artists that i dont like and art i dont like, and its very aggressive", comparing his work to rock music

• rock music is ecstasy and aggression

• wanted his work to be populus; creating an urban playground

• on when entering one of his Pavilions: feeling of body in relationship to both other ppl and the sky

• enjoys the idea of "observing people as you're being observed"