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“Deep Listening practice is process training.”
-Pauline Oliveros, “Deep Listening”

“Prompted by experience and learning, listening takes place voluntarily. Listening is not the same as hearing and hearing is not the same as listening.”
-Pauline Oliveros, “Deep Listening”

These works are “arguments for concentration of present details as a way of life lived against a background of unconsciouness, lack of meaning, and nonexistence … arguing openly for concentration as a value” and embodiment as a human condition”
—Kenneth Baker, “Some Exercises in Slow Perception”

“Works of art can allow us to feel the ethical pressures of everyday life that we are accustomed to repressing. That is, works of art can sensitize us to the amount and kind of labor, of human time and effort, stored in everything we use and think we want.”
—Kenneth Baker, “Some Exercises in Slow Perception”

“There is no considering the labor stored in things without thinking about the social relations that brought about their production.”
-Kenneth Baker, “Some Exercises in Slow Perception”

“Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience. All the conditions of modern life—its material plenitude, its sheer crowdedness—conjoin to dull our sensory faculties.”
-Susan Sontag, “Against Interpretation”

“Interpretation, based on the highly dubious theory that a work of art is composed of items of content, violates art. It makes art into an article for use, for arrangement into a mental scheme of categories.”
-Susan Sontag, “Against Interpretation”

“It doesn’t really matter if the viewer understand the concepts of the artist by seeing the art. Once out of his hand the artist has no control over the way a viewer will perceive the work. Different people will understand the same thing in a different way.”
—Sol Lewitt, Paragraphs on Conceptual Art