Having Been Said: Writings & Interviews of Lawrence Weiner, 1968-2003Lawrence Weiner's art uses language in reference to materials. Language itself is a material and at the same time a means of presentation of his work. Weiner evolved this approach in the context of the Conceptual art of the late 60s, yet he does not see his own work as "conceptual." The "space" he works within is the entire cultural context, and his works are associated with various different media and forms of presentation: books, posters, videos, films, records, drawings, multiples, installations indoors and outdoors, and more. Since his earliest days as a professional artist, Weiner has given written and verbal expression to questions concerning his work and its context. These utterances--statements, interviews, lectures and conference contributions--have been collected together in this publication for the first time, and ordered chronologically. Taken as a whole they afford an insight both into a complex individual biography and into the wider development of art and culture and the challenge that this entails. |
Contents
Preface | 9 |
Symposium at Windham College 1968 | 16 |
Interview Prospect 69 1969 | 28 |
A Symposium 1969 | 34 |
Response to Three Statements by David Lamelas 1970 | 40 |
Interview by Achille Bonito Oliva 1971 | 52 |
Variation of Statement of Intent 1973 | 66 |
Notes for a Talk Introducing a Screening of A First Quarter 1974 | 73 |
Essentially the Question Is 1989 | 211 |
A Conversation with Edward Leffingwell 1989 | 218 |
From an Interview by Sabine B Vogel 1990 | 234 |
The Gondolas of John Chamberlain | 255 |
Regarding the Relationship of Collector to Artist 1990 | 261 |
Films Video 1990 | 271 |
Public Art 1991 | 278 |
A Forum on Art Making 1991 | 284 |
Some Questions and Five Answers Relative to Moved Pictures 1976 | 80 |
Answer to an Open Letter 1978 | 87 |
An International Strike of Artists? 1979 | 91 |
Advances and the Contemporary AvantGarde 1979 | 98 |
Media Audio 1980 | 105 |
Notes from the California Lectures 1981 | 112 |
Regarding a Personal Point in the Time 1981 | 118 |
Notes from Art 1982 | 130 |
Response to the Project How to Paint with Dice 1982 | 136 |
Interview by Els de Groot 1982 | 144 |
The Purpose Manner of Construction 1983 | 151 |
Answers to Two Questions 1985 | 157 |
Landscape 1985 | 164 |
What Does Modern Look Like? 1986 | 170 |
On and about Constructing a Structure 1988 | 176 |
Interview by JeanMarc Poinsot 1989 | 182 |
Interview by David Batchelor 1989 | 186 |
Interview by Dieter Schwarz 1989 | 192 |
Books Catalogues Designed Books 1989 | 198 |
Interview in Preparation for the Conference Art Meets Science | 204 |
A Conversation with Barbaralee Diamonstein 1992 | 290 |
Notes around about Art 1993 | 298 |
QuestionAnswer 1993 | 309 |
Yesterday Today Tomorrow 1994 | 317 |
Joan Jonas 1994 | 323 |
From an Interview by Jonas Ekeberg 1995 | 332 |
From an Interview by Zoran L Božović 1995 | 339 |
From an Interview by Holger Weh 1996 | 346 |
Homeport 1996 | 358 |
Coffee Break Talk 1996 | 364 |
The Objectification of a MiseenScène 1998 | 377 |
The Fact That As Art in the Culture Context of Its Own 1999 | 383 |
The Concept of an Artist Assuming the Role of Historian 1999 | 390 |
89 | 396 |
Given the Light 2000 | 403 |
If an Accumulation Reflects a Life 2001 | 410 |
Interview by Hans Ulrich Obrist 2003 | 422 |
Essay by Gregor Stemmrich | 429 |
Bibliography | 457 |
Photo Credits | 473 |