“In 1969 we published in Art-Language some little works by our dear friend Lawrence Weiner. Lawrence Weiner’s work at that time—he was a poet, he was a painter, but he produced this work which was essentially small, typed fragments of a sort of quasi-English. Larry has not developed discursively. The way that the work has developed is to increase in size and ornamental value. Now, the one thing we would not imagine was natural to (Art & Language’s productions from the same period) was that it should, as it were, be developed in an equivalent or analogous way. That it would suddenly acquire an ornamental value and an institutional value that robs it of its internal complexity. I guess that’s one thing I would say is not possible. But when he’s dead and I’m dead, who the hell knows? You could take any of those little documents and blow them up to a certain scale, or manipulate them in some way, so as to produce endless institutional embellishments. Of course you could do that. It would of course involve the return of Mel and myself from our graves to haunt and murder the sleep of anyone who did that.” [via Radioweb MACBA]