In 2005, Arturas Bumšteinas makes an instrumental reinterpretation of John Baldessari’s recordings called Bumšteinas Plays Baldessari Sings LeWitt. Baldessari aimed to address the mass audience with the theories of high art and, in 1972, sang Sentences on Conceptual Art by Sol LeWitt. In this piece, Baldessari appropriated the subversive legacy of Duchamp and applied it to the false orthodoxy with which conceptualism was about to install itself as the new authoritative movement – a move Bumšteinas seems to feel is appropriate nowadays as well.

In Words and Music, Bumšteinas will continue exploring the language of music within the conceptual art context.

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