An examination of the work of Paolo Gioli. Flusser introductory
comment is as follows: "Private experiences cannot be exhibited,
whatever is private cannot be articulated, it's inutterable.
Everything public is repeatable, codified. Political commitment
is an attempt to overcome this... Art is political commitment in
its most evident form. In art both poles of the impossibility of
articulating private experience are clearly apparent. If one
codifies the private experience in a sketchy fashion, in order
to preserve its concreteness, one runs the danger of its
unaccessibility (undecipherablity) for others. And if one
codifies the private experience well, in order to put it at the
easy disposal of others, one runs the risk of losing its
concreteness. Gioli undertakes the attempt to publish in spite
of this, and to do so by publishing what is most private in the
present cultural context". (German/English)