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Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s List Visual Arts Center presents Hans Haacke 1967

CAMBRIDGE, MA.- The MIT List Visual Arts Center presents Hans Haacke 1967, an exhibition that revisits Hans Haacke’s solo exhibition at MIT from that year, together with ephemeral works that both preceded and followed the 1967 show. When invited to do a solo exhibition in 1967, Haacke was known as a “kinetic” artist—yet he made it clear upon arriving that his works were now to be called “systems,” produced with the “explicit intention of having their components physically communicate with each other, and the whole communicate physically with the environment,” according to the artist’s statements in 1967. The exhibition included Grass, in which a mound of dirt was seeded with grass that grew inside the gallery; Weather Cube, in which water droplets condensed in response to the gallery temperature and humidity; Ice Stick, a six-foot refrigerated column on which amb