Many pasts never end up acquiring a future. The future gathers many pasts to itself.
In October 2001, when the 21st century was still young, we had written a text for art students in an art academy in the German town of Braunschweig at the request of their teacher, Jochen Gerz. The question we were asked was: “What is, in the context of contemporary art, your vision of a future art?”
Our answer presented itself as an argument between reality and desire. We had written, then:
‘…Art, which we might call the process by which desire, and its corollary, imagination, encounter the real, is at present
