Jeudi 05 juin 08
Occult notions of "concept" are un retreat from the physical world. Heaps of private information reduce art to hermeticism and fatuous meta-physics. Langage should find itself in the physical wolrd, and not end up locked in an idea in somebody's head. Language should be an ever developing procedure and not an isolated occurrence. Art shows that have beginnings and ends are confined by unnecessary modes of representation both "abstract" and "realistic". A face or a grid on a canvas is still a representation. Reducing representation to writing does not bring one closer to the physical world.
Writing should generate ideas into matter, and not the other way around. Art's development should be dialectics that seeks a world outside of cultural confinement. Also, I am not interested in art works that suggest "process" within the metaphysical limits of the neutral room. There is no freedom in that kind of behavioral game playing. Confined process is no process at all. It would be better ti disclose the confinement rather than make illusions of freedom.
Extrait de "Cultural Confinement", Robert Smithson, 1977
