Rick, I do take issue with the idea that "it has all been done before". There are many traditions, and the conceptual/avant-garde has its traditions as well. We so-called formalists are content to repeat-in-the-course-of-building-on our own received traditions, so why should the avant-garde not be afforded the same right? The idea that the other guy can only do it once but that we can do it and improve upon it over and over again seems silly. Really, the knee-jerk negative responses to this sort of 'art' have changed less than the 'art' itself has. Andre Breton maintained right from the start that he wanted to destroy "Literature". The point is that the tools of this dismantling change over time, even if the intended rupture remains the same. To his credit in the interview, I think KG is advancing his own tradition by his references to how technology has changed the equation. Like it or not, the seeping of that technology into daily life has made even the non-artist's life the stuff of conceptual art.
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