ABSTRACT

In 2000, the timetable document was given added meaning through its repurposing as textual ephemera in a new context at the 2000 Academy of Management Meeting in Toronto, Canada, something unimaginable in 1977. After learning that this institution had inaugurated a new category of submissions (Art & Poetry) and that the general theme was A New Time, I immediately thought of the Time Table performance. It was my good fortune that the organisers of the Art & Poetry Division had the foresight to, in their words: ‘expand our domain in response to new ideas.’ What I submitted was, after all, unorthodox: neither poetry nor strictly speaking, visual art. As a kind of ‘conceptual memoir,’ Memory, Time and Self, as the text work came to be called, may seem uninspired, insofar as the work merely documents and comments on the original event, rather than present ‘an artwork in its own right.’ It must be understood, however, that the idea here is the prime mover, the idea is the art.