David Hare, Visiting Artist Lecture 1991

This talk is best summarized by the speaker artist David Hare: “As you can see, this is not a lecture, nor even a talk. It might have something to do with art, but it is not a work of art. It’s art in the head before it comes outside.” Hare opens his lecture with a slide presentation where he describes his artistic process as well as other art historical references, such as Duchamp. He then plays a first recording for the audience including both words and experimental music. He pauses the recording in certain moments to interject, then continues, and returns to his slide presentation for the ending portion of the lecture. The recording has noise that makes it challenging to hear specific segments and words.