... leaves silence in its wake. Silence, administered by the artist, is part of a program of perceptual and cultural therapy, often on the model of shock therapy rather than persuasion. Even if the ... concept of art as “expression” is what gives rise to one common, but dubious, version of the notion of silence, which invokes the idea of the ineffable.” The theory supposes that the province of ... toward anti-art, the elimination of the “subject” (the “object,” the “image”), the substitution of chance for intention, and the pursuit of silence. In the early, linear version of art’s relation...