Why work with the term conceptual art?
The original conceptual art is a failed avant-garde. Historians will not be surprised to find, among the ruins of its utopian program, the desire to resist commodification and assimilation to a history of styles Victor Burgin, 1988 A generally accepted category such as conceptual art is, on closer inspection, revealed to be open-ended and subject to a variety of interpretations that can be utilised in many directions. It is as open-ended as to suggest many other terms for such a heterogeneous practice i.e. idea art, nonanthropormorphic art, teach art, post-aesthetic art, situational art, micro-emotive art and meta-art. It is also a term that allows for a lot of categorical blurring, unlike say cubism or surrealism, a blurring that can and is admitting into it, by means of the current historification/canonisation process, such combative precursors as Situationism, Fluxus and Mail Art. So, turning our attention to conceptual art is a means of working a category into a concept that is sub
