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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
Perhaps at some time in the future, when you ask a friend to come up and look at your etchings, you will plug in your collection of video art.
I pledge allegiance to the living, and I will defend art from history. I will rescue art from the future, from its attrition into taste, and from the speculative notion that it will become more valuable with time.
An artist attunes to what things are, which means sort of listening to the future, which is just how things are - I think time is a sort of liquid that pours out of hatpins, underground trains, salt crystals. So a work of art is also listening to itself, because what it is never quite coincides with how it appears, too.