In reaction to the overflow of visual imagery and products in the new consumer culture of the mid-1960s, the conceptual artists dematerialized traditional sculpture and painting and opened up the artwork to other possibilities. Amongst them, Dan Graham (Urbana, Illinois, 1942) has been one of the most eclectic and open. In the mid-1960s he began his artistic practice with a series of works where he experimented with the limits of the art system and with the boundaries between private and public space.

He has run a gallery, published articles as artworks, explored performance and film, and bridged art and architecture. Interested on architecture, in perception and experience, he has consistently explored how consciousness works, he has explored the experience of seeing (and filming) in a series of performance/film works.

In these early film/performances belonging to the Castello di Rivoli Collection, made between 1969 and 1974, Graham’s intention is not simply to film something.