Title: Publication
Artist: David Lamelas
Participating artists and critics: Keith Arnatt, Robert Barry, Stanley Brouwn, Daniel Buren, Victor Burgin, Michel Claura, Gilbert & George, John Latham, Lucy Lippard, Martin Maloney, Barbara M. Reise, Lawrence Weiner, Ian Wilson
Publisher: First published by Nigel Greenwood Inc Ltd, London, 1970 | Reprinted by Kunstverein München and Witte de With, Rotterdam, 1997 | Primary Information, 2015
Format: 38 pages, 14.5 x 20.8 cm
ISBN: none
The exhibition Publication at the Nigel Greenwood Gallery in London, 1970 and the eponymous work ar based on Lamelas’ idea of organizing a round table in the exhibition space as a forum for discussion of “Language as an Art Form” and inviting selected artists and critics, whose work centers on language as and art medium to practice. The concept led to an exhibition in book form, in which the publication is both the exhibtion itself and the exhibited object, which in turn makes David Lamelas both curator and artist. Preliminary discussions with the invited participants yielded three propositions, to which most of the artists and critics responded in writing to the following three statements:
1. Use of oral and written language as an Art Form;
2. Language can be considered as an Art Form;
3. Language cannot be considered an Art Form.
The publication was submitted by Lamelas to the 1970 exhibition In Another Moment, held in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, and organized by Braco and Nena Dimitrijevic.