A glitch in the machine

Terry Haggerty, Installation view (2009), CCNOA.

Sol Lewitt, Wall Drawing# 136 Arcs and lines (1972), Graphite.

'In conceptual art the idea of concept is the most important aspect of the work ... The idea becomes a machine that makes the art.'

Sol Lewitt, 'Paragraphs on Conceptual Art', Alexander Alberro and Blake Stimson, eds., Conceptual Art: A Critical Anthology, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1999 12.

 'For what we find is the "system" of compulsion, of the obsessional's unwavering ritual, with its precision, its neatness, its finicky exactitude, covering over an abyss of irrationality. It is in that sense design without reason, design spinning out of control.'

Rosalind Krauss, 'LeWitt in Progress', October 6 (Autumn 1978), 56.