Artist writing #31

Questo testo è stato concepito come una didascalia da affiancare ogni volta in cui si espone un’opera o ne si pubblica la sua riproduzione.
La prima versione è stata scritta da me, la seconda è stata rivista ed accorciata dal comitato d’archivio per renderla più facilmente applicabile nella realtà.
Ho deciso di attribuire lo statuto di opera ad alcuni dei miei scritti facendoli entrare nell’archivio come tali solo nel 2024. Questo testo è stato scritto senza la consapevolezza che in un futuro avrebbe assunto lo statuto di opera.

Apparatuses
I decide to use all of those elements usually considered as equipment, tools, systems which transmit the work, such as the caption, the site, the archive etc., as an integral part of my work. It is almost as though I were going to define a sort of ecosystem, a world that is capable of defining itself.

Artist's writings
The elements that make up the usual act of an artist’s writing are used here as an integral part of the system-process-work, so much so that I decided to catalogue them in the archive not just as documents but also as works.
They were written either because other artists asked for them, or they accompanied projects, or were read during conferences, or are published works and new writings. They are writings that almost never have an assertive-declarative structure, but which could rather be described as an epistolary-text, a confessional-text, an explicative-text of a feeling, an empathetic-text, a dedication-text, a description-text, a diary-text, an examination-text, a dialogue-text, etc.

Concept
Do you start from an idea or an instinct? What comes first: the concept or the substance? This is the first question I asked myself. Then I left it up in the air.

Text
Opere costituite da una forma testuale

Digital
Opere realizzate su supporti digitali online e offline