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< 8/23/83 reflections on conceptual art exhibit in montréal — art and language — guernica in pollack’s style — i like the work — why? — i like the flow of paint no matter who or what did it — were the colors intentional? — the question of making works in someone else’s style — wish i had written down the full title because i like it “picasso’s guerica in the style of jackson pollack’ ? — darboven (? spelling <spelled wrong in the notes>) — a composite of black and white units — liked the work when i saw it from the entrance more than close up — i didn’t like the individual units — the images — the idea of good composites from not so good cells — my desire to make interesting cells — but i guess he probably liked the units he used < i wrote durboven and he but i think the reference is to hanna darboven>
lili dujoirie (? spelling <dujourie>) black and white video — the boredom of the piece combined with a desire to see what would happen — but i didn’t stay — my own ideas to use the off on switch (which i assume she did) — the probable boringness — good and bad boringness cf lippard — what i don’t find boring and many others do
parisi work in broken or cut glass with gold writing — would have been a lot better without the gold — just pieces of glass — in general i don’t like embellishment —
notes from lippard — conscious exploration of ideas — da vinci’s fire — the quote from da vinci on the art images in a fire — one of the first uses of idea in art — ideas as art —on theory — my visual art doesn’t depend on theory but what i like and like to do — i’m not really that interested in real in theoretical justification of my work although at times i do <think this is fucked up> — to me theory is a separate type of work — an integral part of my writing but different from my visual work — thus i’m interested in theory as theory — as i like independent objects better than assemblages — sort of>