{"product_id":"i-am-still-alive","title":"I am still alive","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFirst conceived in 1969 as a series of telegrams sent to curator Michel Claura, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eI Am Still Alive\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e chronicles On Kawara’s enduring project of marking his presence in the world through succinct declarations of existence. His first telegrams were sent three days apart and carried a nihilistic simplicity: “I am not going to commit suicide don’t worry” (December 5), followed by “I am not going to commit suicide worry” (December 8), and “I am going to sleep forget it” (December 11).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis first recollection, published in 1979, gathers facsimiles of telegrams sent to friends and acquaintances, including many prominent gallerists and curators. Reproduced without additional text, the telegrams are brief, austere, and direct, faithful to the economy of the telegram form itself. Yet, unfolding across time, their accumulation becomes a silent seismograph of the international art world of the 1970s.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAt once an existential meditation on time and its passing, I AM STILL ALIVE transforms a simple phrase into a conceptual and philosophical statement in its own right.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Metabooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54055575945555,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1068\/8898\/6963\/files\/IamStillAlive.png?v=1782028769","url":"https:\/\/metabooks.art\/products\/i-am-still-alive","provider":"Metabooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}