Parallel zum Neuen Konzeptualismus in der Musik gibt es seit etwa einer Dekade im englischsprachigen Raum die Strömung des Conceptual Writing. Das kommt nicht von ungefähr, und es ist sehr interessant, die Parallelen zu beobachten. (Nächstes Jahr soll es mehrere Veranstaltungen in USA und Australien geben, die dann konzeptuelle Literatur und Musik zusammenbringen wollen.)
Der oben gestellten Frage haben sich in einer Umfrage mehrere einschlägige Schriftsteller gestellt.
In 1959, Brion Gysin said that writing was fifty years behind painting. And it still is. So if conceptual art happened fifty years ago, we’re just beginning to get around to it now. These are ideas that have never been explored in poetry. We’ve had a little bit of pastiche, a little bit of — you know, a line from here, a line from there. But we’ve never had the concept of lifting something that you didn’t write and moving it over five inches, saying that it’s yours, and claiming that it’s a newly authored text.
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I think that writers often try too hard in the name of expression, when often it’s just a matter of reframing what’s around you or republishing a preexisting text into a new environment that makes for a successful work. Of course this is nothing new: think of John Cage’s notion of silence or Duchamp’s urinal. But when it comes to writing, these approaches have rarely been investigated.
http://jacket2.org/commentary/what-relationship-between-conceptual-art-and-conceptual-writing
Danke für den Tipp, Seth.