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DAN GRAHAM

ARCHITECTURE/VIDEO

PRO ECTS

INTERIOR SPACE/EXTERIOR SPACE

An addition to a conventional house

Interior camera A's live view is A 'picture window' provides for those (socially) controlled vantage.
continually displayed on exterior outside a view of a family's private Here each of the video monitors'
Monitor 2; exterior camera B's live view living space and, inversely, for that images in conjunction with the window
of the interior space is continuously family (mirrors) relates them to the show, simultaneously, both interior and
transmitted to interior monitor 1. community of essentially similar family exterior views, subverting the exclusive
A person inside the house can units. The view of the interior seen by interior private or exterior public
simultaneously view (looking through the the spectator outside corresponds to perspectives. Both interior and exterior
window) the exterior and (on the public conventions of private life, just as observer's gaze (and behaviour) are
monitor) the view from the exterior of the portion of the outside viewed by given a self-consciousness. A person is
him inside his interior space. those inside provides a frame for (is drawn in, towards the window. It now
The outside observer can contextural to) their private existence. becomes possible to focus on the
simultaneously view (looking in through The video camera/monitor, functioning conventional transparency (transparency
the window) the interior and (on the analogously to the window system, of the convention) and to look literally
monitor) the view from the interior of mediates inside and outside, private and through the transparent surface of the
him in the outside. public spaces from an architecturally `picture window'.

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