Georgia O’Keeffe sitting with her rock collection, New Mexico (1966)

Nicolas Schöffer
Kyldex 1 (Kybernetische Luminodynamische Experiment 1)
1973

Every culture is first and foremost a particular experience of time, and no new culture is possible without an alteration in this experience. The original task of a genuine revolution, therefore, is never merely to 'change the world', but also - and above all - to 'change time'.

Giorgio Agamben, Infancy and History: On the Destruction of Experience

Bookbinding
Ivor Robinson, Batsford/Watson-Guptill
1968

Eyes and Mirrors No. 2
Ashley Whitt
2018

Widespread dissemination of the practices of mental hygiene and the norms of development and personality, as articulated by biopolitical authorities and the agents of advertising, resulted in new technologies of the self. Adults and children were educated about norms of behavior and affect in order that they might assume responsibility for monitoring their families’ well-being. Mental hygiene was presented to mothers as a logical extension of nineteenth-century sanitation practices as they were instructed in how to care for their families. As mothers assumed responsibility for their families’ mental hygiene, the locus of governmental relations shifted from the state, the institution, the hospital, and the clinic to the daily micropractices of individuals engaged in their everyday routines (see Nettleton, 1991). From surveillance technologies to development of technologies of the self, the problematics of physical and mental health, and their links to citizenship, became increasingly individualized. Did this new model of medical subjectivity and new apparatuses of normalization produce a ‘freer’ subjectivity? Although the mental hygiene movement and the development of the study of ‘normality’ deemphasized repressive force, they also ushered in new panopticons of power/knowledge that fragmented old binary formulations of difference and normality with nuanced continuums while implementing new surveillance strategies and technologies of the self that circulated across the spaces and practices of everyday life […]

Majia Holmer, Nadesan Governmentality, Biopower, and Everday Life

Walter Pichler
Pneumatischer Raum, Prototyp V
1966