J. H. Kocman, JHK's card for documentation of pure experience
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- J. H. Kocman, JHK's card for documentation of pure experience
- 1970
- printed text on paper
- 10,4 × 15 cm
J. H. Kocman’s artistic activities—similarly to those of Jiří Valoch—represent one of the key strands of internationally oriented Czech conceptual art. From 1970 to 1976, he referred to his works as activities: these were usually small-scale artworks on paper, graphic designs, collages, and photographic documentation of events. Their defining feature was their emphasis on interpersonal communication, and they often took the form of messages and records of special situations. Most of them were delivered by mail and hence addressed to individual recipients. One thing with which JHK’s “card for documentation of pure experience” is associated is the search for a new kind of sensitivity, which relates it to the intention of “White Space in White Space,” which was realized at the Brno House of Arts by Stano Filko, Miloš Laky and Jan Zavarský in 1974. It also corresponds with the artist’s interest in the poetics of systems and in documentation as a method of artistic practice. J.P.