
Jenny Holzer
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NINE BEATITUDES ON EIGHT PAGES
PROGRAM NOTES
FOR THE SECOND TIME, I have been involved in a case of mistaken identity having to do with a woman called Theresa. The first time it happened I told no one, afraid it would ruin the romantic atmosphere we were then living in. “We were a college class of women around 1973, building a room of our own, or, as the curriculum read (in keeping with the feminist terminology of the time), being students in an experimental women’s studies program. I had been sitting in the library reading Interior Castle, written in Spain in the 16th century by Saint Theresa of Avila. The book had been
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SIGN ON A TRUCK
On November 5, 1984, Election Eve, a Diamond Vision Mobile 2000 will appear at Bowling Green Plaza in New York City. The thoughts and hopes and concerns of the surrounding crown will be reflected on the truck’s video screen, as will a program prepared by artists and other members of New York’s community.