Kendell Geers, Manifest, 2007
Art & Language is a shifting collaboration among conceptual artists. They deal with questions surrounding art production, and attempt a shift from the conventional "non-linguistic" forms of art like painting and sculpture to more theoretically based works. What makes these verbal statements all the more provocative is that artists often find ways to display them in the everyday public arena. For Truisms, Jenny Holzer wrote nearly 300 aphorisms or slogans that appeared on stickers, T shirts, posters and electronic displays. When Holzer started using electronic displays in 1982, she blazed these messages across giant advertising boards in Times Square, New York. She hoped they would sharpen people's awareness of the 'usual baloney they are fed' in daily life.
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