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Item: Oui / Pas Oui

Jimmie Durham

1996

Drawing, 9 x .
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Oui/pas oui, like Une machine désire de l'instruction comme un jardin désire de la discipline, refers to the binary system of the lace-making machines in Calais, France. Instead of the expected yes/no, Durham uses here explicitly yes/not yes, since in the Cherokee language the word “no” doesn’t exist. An example of that is that in order to say "no water" a Cherokee speaker would use the expression "the water is all gone from here".

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