Dove Bradshaw

Originally not conceived as art, it was designed to function hori-zontally as a level, vertically as a clock. Later when left uncali-brated, it became a work by resisting the notion that space and time are measurable. The title is a nonsense mathematical for-mula — drawing attention to the Western attempt to define things with a nod to Eastern mysticism.

Dove Bradshaw, 1971/2008

We’re confronting now it seems to me in the very full way that [Bradshaw’s] work is itself working — the identity, not the separateness but the identity of time and space.

John Cage, 1992

Originally not conceived as art, it was designed to function hori-zontally as a level, vertically as a clock. Later when left uncali-brated, it became a work by resisting the notion that space and time are measurable. The title is a nonsense mathematical for-mula — drawing attention to the Western attempt to define things with a nod to Eastern mysticism. Dove Bradshaw, 1971/2008 We’re confronting now it seems to me in the very full way that [Bradshaw’s] work is itself working — the identity, not the separateness but the identity of time and space. John Cage, 1992			SPACETIME, 2011 23 minute DVD in action as a clock and as a level Accompanied by music of John Cage** Ryoanji [for octobass flute and percussion], 1983-85**
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	clock		The work of Dove Bradshaw works with our changing conceptions of time and space which we have assumed for a long time are two different things. She's involved, as we are in our lives, because of art, with an almost scientific procedure, so that she can experiment in such a way as to prove something. And she can subject us to the results of her experiments, which can open us to the life we are living. It's very curious and very true… Dove's work is preparing us for a constant loss and a constant gain, and also of not knowing whether it's good or bad. John Cage


		Glass, acetone; 2 1/2 x 5 3/4 x 2 1/2 inches with: Bradshaw: Zero Space, Zero Time, Infinite Heat (plaster on wall), 1988 EAST WEST: Anastasi, Bradshaw, Flavin, Kuwayama Björn Ressle Gallery, New York, 2009