Não-sítios
NONSITE (an indoor earthwork)
Photostat, 12 1/2 x 10 1/2″ Robert Smithson
“Pine Barrens and The Non-Site itself exists a space of metaphoric significance. It could be that “travel” in this space is a vast metaphor. Everything between the two sites could become physical metaphorical material devoid of natural meanings and realistic assumptions. Let us say that one goes on a fictitious trip if one decides to go to the site of the Non-Site. The “trip” becomes invented, devised, artificial; therefore, one might call it a non-trip to a site from a Non-site. Once one arrives at the “airfield”, one discovers that it is man-made in the shape of a hexagon, and that I mapped this site in terms of esthetic boundaries rather than political or economic boundaries (31 sub-division-see map). (…)
*Non-Site in Unpublished Writings in Robert Smithson: The Collected Writings, ed. Jack Flam, University of California Press, Berkeley, California, 2.ed. 1996
Theories like things are also abandoned. That theories are eternal is doubtful. Vanished theories compose the strata of many forgotten books”.
*Non-Site in Unpublished Writings in Robert Smithson: The Collected Writings, ed. Jack Flam, University of California Press, Berkeley, California, 2.ed. 1996
