Page 46 - Studio International - May 1968

Air Art 1 Some remarks
...Art Acts...
Naum Gabo

Art's enemy is the object. Reality is events, not objects. Static struc-
tures are anachronisms. They are irrelevant to today's cultural and
technological situation. It's idiotic and immoral to make such objects
as art now. Objects perpetuate the fallacy of simple location. They
misrepresent reality by offering boundaries as the essence of a body or
thing, the essence of a body as thing. Reality is energy, not things.

More, the obligation- the morality, if you wish- of all the arts today is to
intensify, alter perceptual awareness and, hence, consciousness . . . Awareness
and consciousness of what? Of the real material world.
John Cage

Art should burst boundaries, abolish absolutes. Object art is over.
We are moving away from the physical view of reality as that which
exists to a kinetic conception of reality as that which seems to occur.
This is a shift from being to becoming. Time is measured. Duration
begins with divisions of time into units. Kinetic works destroy lineal
time. Kinetic works do not contain time, they create time. Static
states stop. Kinetic sculpture is beginning to establish a subject-