Dan Graham
Past Future Split Attention, 1972
Documentation of the performance
at Lisson Gallery, London
Video, black and white, sound, 17 min 3 sec
This performance (at London’s Lisson Gallery) documents Graham’s
project of psychologically restructuring space and time. Graham writes,
“Two people who know each other are in the same space. While one
continuously the other person’s behavior, the other person
recounts (by memory) the other’s past behavior. Both performers are in
the present, so knowledge of the past is needed to continuously deduce
future behavior (in terms of causal relation). For one to see the
other in terms of the present (attention), there is a mirror reflection or
closed figure-eight feedback/feedahead loop of past/future. One person’s
behavior reciprocally reflects/depends upon the other’s, so that
each one’s information is seen as a reflection of the effect that their own
behavior has had in reversed tense, as perceived from the
other’s view of himself.” (SR-KA)
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