"I can no longer see discrete forms or objects in art as viable reflections or expressions of what seems to me to be going on in this society: They refer back to conditions of separateness, order, exclusivity, and the stability of easily accepted functional identities that no longer exist."
"I've been doing pieces the significance and experience of which is defined as completely as possible by the viewer's reaction and interpretation. Ideally the work has no meaning or independent existence outside of its function as a medium of change. It exists only as a catalytic agent between myself and the viewer."
"Art contexts per se (galleries, museums, performances, situations) are becoming increasingly unworkable for me... they preserve the illusion of an identifiable, isolatable situation, much as discrete forms do, and thus a prestandardized set of response. Because of their established functional identities, they prepare the viewer to be catalyzed, thus making actual catalysis impossible(rather that its more comfortable illusion, which consists of filling in the particulars of an aesthetic experience, the general outlines of which are predetermined)."
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