1970: Douglas Huebler asks museum visitors to write down 'one authentic secret'. The resulting 1800 documents are compiled into a book which, by some accounts, makes for very repetitive reading as most secrets are similar
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Nice to have someone point this out. I think Frank Warren's Post Secrets project is pretty derivative of Huebler's original art project whether he would acknowledge it or not. It would be surprising if, as an artist, he were unaware of this piece.
Huebler created this piece as an installation at a number of museum shows. People would write a secret on a piece of paper and slide it through a slot anonymously. From another slot, they would be given a xerox copy of another person's secret (probably from a previous day.) Yes it is interesting that so many secrets tend to sound so similar.
Huebler published a compilation as a book in the 1970's titled "Secrets".
Thanks for the reply! I think I like the intimacy of the slots, of the single photocopied secret. It makes it an exchange, a call and response, as opposed to the almost voyeurism of everyone's secrets up on a wall. It certainly takes away the secrecy, instead of making it a trading of confidences.
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project is pretty derivative of Huebler's original art project whether he would
acknowledge it or not. It would be surprising if, as an artist, he were unaware
of this piece.
Huebler created this piece as an installation at a number of museum shows.
People would write a secret on a piece of paper and slide it through a slot
anonymously. From another slot, they would be given a xerox copy of
another person's secret (probably from a previous day.) Yes it is interesting
that so many secrets tend to sound so similar.
Huebler published a compilation as a book in the 1970's titled "Secrets".
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