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QUESTIONS ARE WHAT BROUGHT US HERE: How and where do artists talk about their work? How is a work created by its reading or by speech? Can a score be readymade? Is “telecommunication” in the medium of print possible, and how does the world enter it? Has the critique of academies or its reprise as institutional critique in the 90’s become mainstream? What are the consequences? To what extent have forms of “free” knowledge exchange or attempts at critical articulation been incorporated into academic structures, and what happens to them within these structures? How are these structures themselves changing? What happens to artistic procedures, practices and the concepts that stand for them—such as the essay or poetry–within this process? What happens to these procedures, practices and concepts between institutions? How are they affected by their environments? Where is the classroom located? Within or between institutions? Does it take an address? Is subjectivity a mutual currency? Or is it rather object matter put forth by the text? What does it consist of? How can the work on this object matter within the classroom be described? How is it transformed? In what ways has this work changed? And how does it get paid? Is knowledge a mutual currency? How and where is it circulating? Is text a bank or the stock market? Who plays the stock market? Is it a currency without material backing? What else could it be? Is language be it written or in the form of speech—and in the various states of transformation between the two—a structure of administration or intermediation therein? What else could it be?