permanence

For me, permanence is mostly about personal agency over the tools I use.

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But then most importantly, I think there is this idea of a permanent cultural site that's really different from any other storage or recording medium. Artists, from my conversations, feel drawn to that, to the idea of permanence, which I think raises an interesting issue that's quite at odds with a lot of other ideas in contemporary art

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