One Million Years
One Million Years is one of the artist’s best-known works about the passage and marking of time. It lists each year for the one million-year period leading up to the artwork's conception and the million years that follow it. It is sometimes performed, during which pairs of performers (typically one male and one female for a each segment) read dates from each list in order, simultaneously performing One Million Years [Past] and One Million Years [Future].
The artwork was first made in 1969, the year of the Woodstock music festival, major civil protests against the Vietnam War and man's first landing on the moon.[15] The first audio presentation of the reading of One Million Years occurred in 1993 during Kawara’s yearlong solo exhibition “One Thousand Days One Million Years” at Dia Center for the Arts in New York. Visitors could hear One Million Years [Future] being read, while viewing One Million Years [Past] and a group of date paintings. The longest public reading from One Million Years took place at documenta 11 in 2002, where male and female participants sat side by side in a glass enclosure taking turns reading dates for the duration of the 100-day exhibition, switching between [Past] and [Future]. In 2004, the project traveled to Trafalgar Square in London for a continuous outdoor reading lasting 7 days and 7 nights. Since then, readings and recordings have taken place in cities around the world.
On Kawara ia Japanese conceptual artist He has shown in many solo and group exhibitions, including the Venice Biennale in 1976. In this image: Two performers in a glass structure, left, act out a conceptual work of art by Japanese artist On Kawara consisting of continuous reading for seven days and seven nights watched by passers by in London's Trafalgar Square Monday March 29, 2004. The performers take turns to read a single year from Kawara'a ten-volume work, "One Million Years"
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