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Postscript to "an interview with Michael Snow" in issue #84 Winter 2004: apologies and corrections/clarifications.(Correction Notice)

Publication: C: International Contemporary Art
Publication Date: 22-MAR-05
Format: Online - approximately 1809 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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Unfortunately, I was increasingly horrified as I first struggled to read this interview. Equally unfortunately, what is wrong with it is largely my fault. Much of what I apparently said is incomprehensible. However, sometimes this incomprehensibility must be due to odd copy editing.

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...hereby attempt clarification, the record, in the hopes that the first puzzled and confused and, perhaps understandably, contemptuous readers of the interview will also read this.

Besides the many confused sentences there are also some errors of fact that need correcting: the two reproductions on page 23 are not of So Is This, a film of 1982. They are of the video installation work That/Cela/Dat (2000) at its first exhibition Voici, curated by Thierry de Duve at the Palais des Beaux Arts in Bruxelles.

Continuing the interview on page 26, the first sentence of my answer to Ariane Beyne's question about the Walking Woman is puzzling: "The Walking Woman was never on canvas." In fact the outline of The Walking Woman was used on many paintings on canvas. Probably what I meant was that the contour which I used (mostly unaltered) between 1961 and 1967 did not come from a pre-existing painting by myself.

Later in the interview there is some discussion of my new book BIOGRAPHIE of the Walking Woman (1961-1967) (2004). It is 240 pages of all photos, but it also contains a text about the genesis of the Walking Woman outline. I append it here because my statement in the interview is very confusing and must be corrected. This description is much more informative;

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In late 1960 Michael Snow made...

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