SUBTRACTION CHRONICLES
Episode 1 – Signs of Degrowth

Chronicle by Jean-Baptiste Farkas

Summary

Can a landmark piece of art be reduced to a “simple descriptive statement”? More generally, couldn’t everything be translated “into much smaller”? A challenge proposed by The Society for Conservation of the Present .(SCP). “Too big… and yet never big enough. That’s the paradox of modern life.” Small is beautiful.

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N°10, printemps 2011, page 64.

  Between 1985 and 1994, a collective was founded in Montreal called The Society for Conservation of the Present, or .(SCP). The collective envisioned several interesting subtraction projects: A proposition to reduce Marcel Duchamp’s iconic work Étant Donnés, conserved at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, to “a simple descriptive statement”. Or a celebration of the…

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