I do not want to document my starting points, turning points, high points, low points, good points, bad points, stopping points, lucky breaks, bad breaks, breaking points, dead ends, breakthroughs or breakdowns.
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| Robert Morris • Untitled (Scatter Piece) • 1968 - 9 • felt, steel, lead, plated zinc • plated copper • aluminum & brass
Installation view at the Art Institute of Chicago • photo: Art or Idiocy? |
It will be interesting to see what Robert Morris has to say tonight at the University of Chicago when he delivers his public presentation entitled IS A POUND OF PASSIVITY WORTH A PINCH OF PIQUE?
The following is from "Robert Morris on Silence" posted on the Critical Inquiry blog in 2011. You may notice the curious detail that the CI website runs counter to The Chicago Manual of Style and puts the traditional double-space at the end of sentences. Thanks to Philip von Zweck for sharing.
One of the more inexcusable forms of talking comes in the form of those cultural events called art symposiums. Now that the role of curator in museums has metastasized to truly horrifying dimensions, it is necessary to keep these culture mavens busy by having them dream up completely irrelevant culture fests. As an aging artist I am still on occasion invited to these stupid shindigs. For years I made up excuses for not showing up. But now I have fashioned an all-purpose document of reply, which goes like this:
