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- ISSN: 0845-4450
- E-ISSN: 2048-6928
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Afterword
- Source: Public, Volume 25, Issue 50, Sep 2014, p. 169 - 176
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- 01 Sep 2014
Abstract
Abstract
Afterword for special issue of PUBLIC on The Retreat: A Position of dOCUMENTA (13) reflects on author's participation in the Banff residency through personal vignettes and keywords that connect essays in the issue. The second half of the article examines Hong Kong-born Canadian artist Yam Lau's recent projection-based art installation. It considers contemporary implications for retreat as model in relation to the historic literati retreat of seventeenth century China and the Buddhist metaphor of Indra's Net, arguing the impossibility of both profound withdrawal and retreat into indifference.
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