PRACTICES IN REMOVE

There's something sad about 'Unpopular Pop', like a neglected toy stuffed in the corner of a dusty cupboard.

The idea of removal is just as—if not more—interesting than the intrusion of a fabricated object into a space, as sculpture is.

A while ago I felt a strange pang of nostalgia for boredom, the kind of absolute emptiness so familiar when I was a teenager, or a college student, or a dole-claiming idler in my early twenties. Those great gaping gulfs of time with absolutely nothing to fill them would induce a sensation of tedium so intense it was almost spiritual. This was the pre-digital era (before COs, before personal computers, long before the Internet) when in the UK there were only three or four TV channels, mostly with nothing you'd want to watch; only a couple of just-about-tolerable radio stations; no video stores or DVDs to buy; no email, no blogs, no webzines, no social media.