Author: Ivan Dal Cin
This collection of texts, dating from 1999 to 2004, recovers my very first conceptual interventions that I developed in written form. "Artism" is an extreme point of tautological conceptualism: a formula that can only refer to itself, and the artist is nothing more than an executor of this recursive logic. The "Audioscript" is a transcription of my recorded voice monologues, therefore an indirect and impure writing with which I explored a different time of criticism, made more performative, in an attempt to distance myself from an excessive formal rigor. This leads to the definition of two problems that were central to me at the time: the function of writing as an artistic medium and the role of the external observer. In practice, the limits of an analytical perspective of art-making.
