In 1968, the American conceptual artist Ian Wilson decided to translate his ideas about visible abstraction in art into the invisible abstraction of language. In this dematerialisation of art, he went further than such other artists of the time as Laurence Weiner, Joseph Kosuth, Robert Barry or Art & Language. He presented oral communication as the actual object, and in doing this freed art from a fixed location.
"I present oral communication as an object, … all art is information and communication. I've chosen to speak rather than sculpt. I've freed art from a specific place. It's now possible for everyone. I'm diametrically opposed to the precious object. My art is not visual, but visualized." Ian Wilson
