For Example Decorated (1977)
By Lawrence Weiner
'Writes Alice Weiner: For Example Decorated is an art world talk show between personalities Britta Le Va, Peter Gordon and James Sarkis. The show begins with Le Va, seated at a table, introducing the show (i.e. reciting the credits). Then she introduces herself, soviet style as in Do You Believe In Water? by saying her name and then clapping. Gordon and Sarkis do the same, and they are finally all clapping. They sit down and talk. A coffee table in front of them is covered with Lego blocks. As they converse, they build little structures. A soundtape made for the installation of the work HAVING BEEN MARKED WITH (i.e. decorated) HAVING BEEN DECORATED WITH (i.e. marked) WITH A PROBABILITY OF BEING SEEN at the Konrad Fischer Gallery, 1977, is played at intervals throughout For Example Decorated. The soundtape has a number of tracks that were mixed by Weiner. On one track the work is read by Le Va and Weiner along the artists' 'conditions': 'the artist may construct the work; the work may be fabricated; the work need not to be built...' On another Le Va talks generally about how to make friends with transvestites, what they like and don't like. And another track has Le Va singing an…
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