NISHIDA, KITARŌ

Nishida: the basho (place, topos) is the underlying field in which subject and object arise together. The Empty Archive (§2.1.2) is a basho in Nishida's sense — the field of pure potential before the entry is filed, in which the artist and the institution arise together as roles. The archive is not container and content. The archive is the place where both come to be. The Empty Archive precedes the full one.