About this artwork
Douglas Huebler used diverse systems of documentation to chronicle rule-based but unscripted events and encounters. Variable Piece #70 stands as the most ambitious project of his career—to make a photographic record of “everyone alive.” The utter futility of the premise was liberating, and Huebler would set different terms of play for each foray. For Variable Piece #70 (In Process): 166A, he asked participants to describe themselves by selecting from a set of 80 placards imprinted with different personal characteristics. This work features all five people who posed with the sign reading “One person who may be culturally dislocated.” Far from a fastidious archivist, Huebler pursued Variable Piece #70 until his death, always undermining the project’s potential rigor with allowances for subjectivity and humor.
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Status
- On View, Gallery 294
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Department
- Contemporary Art
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Artist
- Douglas Huebler
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Title
- Variable Piece #70 (In Process): 166A
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Place
- United States (Object made in)
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Date
- 1975–1976
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Medium
- Typed and signed statement, typed list of characterizations, five chromogenic prints mounted on two panels
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Dimensions
- Top panel: 40.6 × 116.8 cm (16 × 46 in.); Bottom panel: 40.6 × 96.5 cm (16 × 38 in.)
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Credit Line
- Contemporary Art Discretionary Fund
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Reference Number
- 2012.109
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Copyright
- © 2018 Estate of Douglas Huebler / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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