Artist field note

On Kawara

Existence is recorded one day at a time.

Appears inConceptual Art
I Got Up by On Kawara
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02 / 05

I Got Up

1968-1979

Postcards stamped with waking times turn routine into a distributed record of presence.

The five in one idea

Kawara made the bare facts of date, movement and encounter carry the mystery of being alive.