Net art could just be another artistic genre, in danger of being pickled in
its technology. The Art & Language project is and was by no means a
generalised geisteswissenschaftlichen enquiry. An enormous remainder is left
by the expert Geisteswissenschaft. Our indexing project was bound to develop
so as to query (and include) the non-cognitive as well as the cognitive
conditions of a discourse. The practice (or discourse or conversation or (?))
was often pursued under conditions such that (possibly) artistic reflexivity
had been forgotten or lost. The question of its return or failure to return
was frequently a matter of indifference to us - but there was always a sense
(a memory) that this had all grown out of the syndicalisation of an
artistically modernist space. This is what we had to do when we tried to
paint and failed - or rather discovered reasons why we shouldn't. Is this
very tenuous mooring sufficient?
Michael Baldwin/Mel Ramsden(ARTLANGUAGE@aol.com)
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