Coatings and aspects

Robert Morris finds a brilliant way of describing a relationship between objects and text, or art making and art thinking in his chapter Professional Rules 1997*:

'I would like to float out the notion of an interrogative space, questionable as this might be, so that when examples of the art appear they are coated or infected with a kind of questionlike aspect'

I love this - I love the idea that ideas and text can surround your work like a coating, as if they can form some kind of substance with which the objects are flavoured. I think we are always trying to think of ways to formulate the relationship of text to our images and objects, and trying to avoid the idea that one is generative of the other. We prefer to think of the relationship as adjacent.

For this show we are 'floating out' a blog, which functions somehow as a coating - it gives a context, but is not something from which we might proceed- it is a coating, it creates an aspect, but it does not create an object.

* from Have I Reasons: Work and Writings, 1993-2007, by Robert Morris, edited by Nena Tsouti-Schillinger, Published by Duke University Press, 2008