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The Object at Rest in 100 Views: Specticles, 2013
Teacher: We say that we look into the horizon. Therefore the field of vision is something open, but its openness is not due to our looking.
Scholar: Likewise we do not place the appearance of objects, which the view within a field of vision offers us, into this openness…
Scientist: …rather that comes out of this to meet us.
Teacher: What is evident of the horizon, then, is but the side facing us of an openness which surrounds us; an openness which is filled with views of the appearances of what to our re-presenting are objects.
Scientist: In consequence the horizon is still something else besides a horizon. Yet after what has been said this something else is the other side of itself. You say that the horizon is the openness which surrounds us. But what is this openness as such, if we disregard that it can also appear as the horizon of our re-presenting?
Teacher: It strikes me as something like a region, an enchanted region where everything belonging there returns to that in which it rests.
Excerpt from Discourse on a Country Path, by Martin Heidegger
Exhibited at Supermarket Artfair, 2013
Teacher: We say that we look into the horizon. Therefore the field of vision is something open, but its openness is not due to our looking.
Scholar: Likewise we do not place the appearance of objects, which the view within a field of vision offers us, into this openness…
Scientist: …rather that comes out of this to meet us.
Teacher: What is evident of the horizon, then, is but the side facing us of an openness which surrounds us; an openness which is filled with views of the appearances of what to our re-presenting are objects.
Scientist: In consequence the horizon is still something else besides a horizon. Yet after what has been said this something else is the other side of itself. You say that the horizon is the openness which surrounds us. But what is this openness as such, if we disregard that it can also appear as the horizon of our re-presenting?
Teacher: It strikes me as something like a region, an enchanted region where everything belonging there returns to that in which it rests.
Excerpt from Discourse on a Country Path, by Martin Heidegger
Exhibited at Supermarket Artfair, 2013