{"id":36208,"date":"2021-12-03T15:18:21","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T14:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.bakonline.org\/2021\/12\/03\/other\/in-memoriam-lawrence-weiner-1942-2021\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T12:06:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T10:06:09","slug":"in-memoriam-lawrence-weiner-1942-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.bakonline.org\/nl\/2021\/12\/03\/other\/in-memoriam-lawrence-weiner-1942-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"In Memoriam Lawrence Weiner (1942-2021)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure id=\"attachment_36205\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36205\" style=\"width: 588px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-36205\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.bakonline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/WEIN_Philip-Daniel-Ducasse_Portrait_LW-300x252.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"588\" height=\"494\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.bakonline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/WEIN_Philip-Daniel-Ducasse_Portrait_LW-300x252.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.bakonline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/WEIN_Philip-Daniel-Ducasse_Portrait_LW-1024x859.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/archive2.bakonline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/WEIN_Philip-Daniel-Ducasse_Portrait_LW-768x644.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/archive2.bakonline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/WEIN_Philip-Daniel-Ducasse_Portrait_LW.jpeg 1193w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 588px) 100vw, 588px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-36205\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Philip-Daniel Ducasse, \u00a9 Lawrence Weiner, courtesy Lisson Gallery<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Art ain&#8217;t about you. Art ain&#8217;t about me. Art is about we. There is no autonomous art. <br \/>Each artist functions in society in a non-prescribed manner. Art in itself is engaged in <br \/>its pondering not only of its position, but as well of its propositions. The only requirement<br \/>of art is that it is public.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><br \/><small>Lawrence Weiner in conversation with Maria Hlavajova, &#8220;Art Is about We,&#8221; in Rosi Braidotti, Charles Esche, and Maria Hlavajova, <br \/>eds.,\u00a0<i>Citizens and Subjects: The Netherlands, for example\u00a0<\/i>(Utrecht and Geneva: BAK and JRP|Ringier, 2007), p. 311.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 &#8220;Art ain&#8217;t about you. Art ain&#8217;t about me. Art is about we. There is no autonomous art. Each artist functions in society in a non-prescribed manner. Art in itself is engaged in its pondering not only of its position, but as well of its propositions. The only requirementof art is that it is public.&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[290],"tags":[],"fellowship":[],"class_list":["post-36208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bak-2-nl"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.bakonline.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.bakonline.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.bakonline.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.bakonline.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.bakonline.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36208"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.bakonline.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36256,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.bakonline.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36208\/revisions\/36256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.bakonline.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.bakonline.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.bakonline.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36208"},{"taxonomy":"fellowship","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.bakonline.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/fellowship?post=36208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}