Artist writing #20

This unpublished piece was written to be read during the talk ‘Il luogo delle muse’ (The place of muses) as part of Cesare Pietroiusti’s ‘Un certo numero di cose’ exhibition at the MAMbo in Bologna on 28 November 2019. I was invited by the artist and by the participants of the workshop linked to the exhibition to be one of a group of speakers to talk about the concept of the museum starting with a piece written in 2013 by Pietroiusti.
I decided to attribute the status of work to some of my writings, including them in the archive as such only in 2024. This text was written without the knowledge that it would have assumed the status of work in the future.

Artist's writings
The elements that make up the usual act of an artist’s writing are used here as an integral part of the system-process-work, so much so that I decided to catalogue them in the archive not just as documents but also as works.
They were written either because other artists asked for them, or they accompanied projects, or were read during conferences, or are published works and new writings. They are writings that almost never have an assertive-declarative structure, but which could rather be described as an epistolary-text, a confessional-text, an explicative-text of a feeling, an empathetic-text, a dedication-text, a description-text, a diary-text, an examination-text, a dialogue-text, etc.
I decided to give the status of work to a series of my writings in 2024 and since then I have selected others to add to the sequence.

Concept
 These works comprise words and concepts

Text
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Digital
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