Practice question · Sort into groups
Sort each described work by the kind of practice it belongs to.
Groups: Representation · Abstraction · Conceptual practice · Contextual practice
- Aerial distance
- Abstract bands
- Paper proxy doc
- Site-tied lines
- Schema portrait
- Wall directions
Hints
- Two of the six are the same practice differing only in subject.
- Two of them can travel without an object at all.
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Representation: Schema portrait, Aerial distance
Abstraction: Abstract bands
Conceptual practice: Wall directions, Paper proxy doc
Contextual practice: Site-tied lines
Why
The pairs are chosen to show that the categories are about where the work lives rather than about how it looks. Two of these can be posted as a page of text, and the object that results is one performance of the work rather than the work itself, which is a change in what ownership even means.
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