17.1.20 Anselm Kiefer, Site responsiveness and traces
‘Anselm Kiefer said that no empty place is really empty: everywhere is filled up, “almost claustrophobically” with all the traces of the past. The past is always there in the present. Artists working site-responsively are working with these traces or “ghosts” as raw material, aware that whatever we put into a place will be mingled with whatever was there before.’
McIver, G., 2004, ART/SITE/CONTEXT, [online] Available at: http://www.sitespecificart.org.uk/6.htm [Accessed 10 Oct 2019]
‘Anselm Kiefer said that no empty place is really empty: everywhere is filled up, “almost claustrophobically” with all the traces of the past. The past is always there in the present. Artists working site-responsively are working with these traces or “ghosts” as raw material, aware that whatever we put into a place will be mingled with whatever was there before.’
McIver, G., 2004, ART/SITE/CONTEXT, [online] Available at: http://www.sitespecificart.org.uk/6.htm [Accessed 10 Oct 2019]
