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View at the museum ↗Variable Piece #70 (In Process): 166A
Douglas Huebler1975/76
- Attribution
- Douglas Huebler American, 1924–1997
- Medium
- Typed and signed statement, typed list of characterizations, five chromogenic prints mounted on two panels
- Physical dimensions
- Top panel: 40.6 × 116.8 cm (16 × 46 in.); Bottom panel: 40.6 × 96.5 cm (16 × 38 in.)
- Credit line
- Contemporary Art Discretionary Fund
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Source rights statement: © 2018 Estate of Douglas Huebler / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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Douglas Huebler used diverse systems of documentation to chronicle rule-based but unscripted events and encounters. Variable Piece #70 stands as the most ambitious project of his career—to make a photographic record of “everyone alive.” The utter futility of the premise was liberating, and Huebler would set different terms of play for each foray. For Variable Piece #70 (In Process): 166A , he asked participants to describe themselves by selecting from a set of 80 placards imprinted with different personal characteristics. This work features all five people who posed with the sign reading “One person who may be culturally dislocated.” Far from a fastidious archivist, Huebler pursued Variable Piece #70 until his death, always undermining the project’s potential rigor with allowances for subjectivity and humor.
Description: Art Institute of Chicago · CC BY 4.0