Stephen Vitiello (b. 1964, USA)
Listening to Donald Judd, 2007

I do not really even care what it sounds like.
Or I do, but not for this particular purpose.
What got this work into this blog is a novel way to engage with another artist’s work. Rather than appreciating Judd’s structures visually, Vitiello is recording sounds they mediate.

This is a recurrent theme in my own thinking and making – it’s in the eye of beholder, it’s in the ear of the listener, it’s in the tactility of the toucher etc. I am not aiming to convey a message, I am aiming to construct a meaning generating device able to generate more/other meanings than I can foresee or anticipate. And that is also my regular approach to other artist’s works – I am taking from them what happens to interest or inspire me, which is not necessarily the same thing that they had in mind when making it. E.g. in “Collaborations” I photographically reframe, reinterpret, re-represent other’s works with my additions, subtractions or repositionings.