Excavation site, Library of Congress, Washington DC, 1888

All exchanges are personal. There is no authority. No history. No canon. All information is neurotic, two-sided, and unfixed. Perception. Memory. Translation. Speech. Constant utterances. Understandings which involve more than mere word-recognition. Beyond titles. Listen for what is beyond words, beyond comprehension. Listen for tone, embedded experiences. Detect falseness like a sixth sense. There is no need for legislation. Sniff out the gestures. (Why pretend the printed word means more than what is said between people?) Jealousy and sympathy collide to produce conversation. Without prose, fiction, non-fiction, all forms are self-evident. Some things remain hidden. Some things come out.

(Sarah Pierce, "Excavation site, Library of Congress, Washington DC, 1888", A4 flyer produced for Definitively Provisional, curated by Cecilia Canziani and Kristine Haugaard Neilsen, Whitechapel Project Room, London 2003.)