Artist writing #29

This piece was written in 2021 to be read during the online conference ‘Prima dell’archivio: il catalogo tra oggetti concetti’ (before the archive: the catalogue between objects and concepts’) curated by the University of Turin, Labont and ICCD – Central Institute for Cataloguing and Documentation. It was later published in the book that contains the conference proceedings edited by Mulino. Davide Del Sasso asked me to reflect on the moment that moves the archive forward, or rather the act of cataloguing my work.
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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