Practice question · Sort into groups
Sort each installation practice by how much it fixes in advance.
Groups: Fixed precisely · Fixed within a range · Decided anew each time
- Set limits with latitude
- Different in each venue
- Range set for installer
- Reinstalled as new reading
- Set size, height and light
- Travelling floor plan
Hints
- The three practices differ in how much authorship the installer holds.
- The most open practice makes the work a set of possibilities.
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Fixed precisely: Set size, height and light, Travelling floor plan
Fixed within a range: Range set for installer, Set limits with latitude
Decided anew each time: Reinstalled as new reading, Different in each venue
Why
The third column is a decision rather than an absence of one. A work realised differently in each venue exists as a set of possibilities rather than as a fixed configuration, which puts it on the allographic side of the distinction, closer to a score than to a carving.
Practise Installation and Display
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