“The Medium and the Tedium” by Mel Bochner For translucence, against transparency: an account of conceptual art and its…
“The Medium and the Tedium” by Mel Bochner
For translucence, against transparency: an account of conceptual art and its mediums.
“For me, the medium was never transparent, never something to be seen through, never a neutral delivery system. No matter how reduced the means, they always remained something material, something to be taken apart and put back together, something to be confronted. Any genuine critique can arise only out of the process of using the medium against itself. Far from being the “tedium” of this evening’s theme, this is how I see my job as an artist: to grapple with the means of expression until an idea finds its own form.”