This led, in a roundabout way, to his remembering his time at the Maryland Institute College of Art, when he had recognized and embraced his own ignorance of art history.
It may be worth his remembering that, for all the glories of the early and late years of Karajan's reign, the orchestra of his middle years had a deserved reputation for bland homogeneity and under-characterised sonic opulence.
His "Remembering Your Paradoxical Whisper," to music by Mr. Aldrich based on compositions by Ryuichi Sakamoto, was a nuanced, well-plotted exploration of urgent emotional divides between an individual, danced by the eloquent Sara Roer, and four others.
In recent years even his work for galleries has become overtly political, blurring the boundary between art and activism – at a recent show in Munich, his Remembering installation comprised 9,000 children's backpacks, in reference to the death toll of pupils in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake.
Reid also claims, when considering a case of his remembering something from earlier in the day, "It is impossible that this act [of remembrance] should be, if the event [i.e., the event remembered] did not happen" [Reid 1785, Essay III, Section II].
