Scope and Contents In an introductory essay, Stephen Bann writes that "artists like Willem Boshoff and Frederic Bruly Bouabre clearly demonstrate the fertility of language-based investigations on African soil: Boshoff prepared for his work with dictionaries by lengthy exercises in concrete poetry." Okwui Enwezor contributes an essay "Where, What, Who, When: A Few Notes on "African" Conceptualism." Bann adds that "Willem Boshoff's conceptual practice is an elaborate effort dedicated to the study of ignorance, that is, pushing to the point of dissolution the idea that the world is knowable. Imprisoned by South African authorities for his refusal to serve in the military (the micrographic work, Kleinpen I, was produced in prison as a way to maintain mental equilibrium)... Boshoff finds in obscure and obsolete words a way to construct a map that denies sight but empowers knowledge...His study of linguistics and Wittgensteinian philosophy led him to explore other ways of rendering words into pulsating...

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Marvin Sackner was told to respond to the question "What do you remember about 23:10:83?" The page is blank. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Marvin Sackner was told to respond to the question "What do you remember about 23:6:83?" He writes " It was the day before our wedding anniversary & I had to remind myself not to forget it! David Zack writes on the verso "Marvin Sackner as a name rings a bell but the memorysheds on light on who he is..." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.