'History is an Angel......'

According to Time Out interview between Sarah Kent and RCA Curating student Charlotte Bonham-Carter, Laurie Anderson's 'The Dream Before ' has a line

'history is an angel being blown backwards in the future'.

Charlotte is reported as saying 'history is still alive, you go back in order to project forwards'.

The quotes sum up the historical process in a neat way, without the deadening impact of the relativism of post-structuralistic deconstruction!

The RCA's curating course is putting on an exhibition of 14 artists at the RCA called 'Again for Tomorrow' exploring the using the past to imagine the future.

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