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Actual Space

But what of its reception, the real aspect of a work, How does one find this book (these books) and what distinction does one make to an art object, an object, a text as material, a space, a developing space, an institutional space, a governmental space, a cognitive space and/or an empty space? And how does one relate these spaces to the actual space, the space of the Fire Station and the space of a strategy of working, as equally  valid spaces, one may find these books within the vicinity of the Fire Station, and yet all that is contained therein is closed to the public, so the possibility of knowing is obscured. There is perhaps more opportunity of knowing the internal workings of a work than its source, and that in turn is the work, is the subject/object, over site. The space of the work becomes contested. The Fire Station, the book, the cognition, each the same object