Marcel Broodthaers, Interview With A Cat, Recorded at the Musée d’Art Moderne, Département des Aigles, Düsseldorf, 1970.
This is a translation and transcription of Marcel Broodthaers’s 1970 audio work Interview with a Cat.1
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Marcel Broodthaers: Is that one a good painting? … Does it correspond to what you expect from that very recent transformation which goes from conceptual art to this new version of a kind of figuration, as one might say?
Cat: Miaow.
MB: Do you think so?
Cat: Miiaaow … mm … miaow … miaow.
MB: And yet this color is very clearly redolent of the painting that was being done in the period of abstract art, isn’t it?
Cat: Miaaow … miaaow … miiaow … miaow.
MB: Are you sure it’s not a new form of academicism?
Cat: Miaow.
MB: Yes, but if it’s a daring innovation it’s still a contestable one.
Cat: Miaow.
MB: It’s still …
Cat: Miaow.
MB: Er … It’s still a matter of markets …
Cat: Miaaow.
MB: What will the people who bought the previous things do?
Cat: Miaow.
MB: Will they sell them?
Cat: Miiaow … mia.
MB: Or will they continue? What do you think? … Because, at the moment, a lot of artists are wondering about that.
Cat: Miaaow … miaow …
MB: In that case close the museums!
Cat: MIAOW!
MB: This is a pipe.
Cat: Miaouw.
MB: This is not a pipe.
Cat: Miaouw.
MB: This is a pipe!
Cat: miAOUW.
MB: This is not a pipe!
Cat: Miaouu.
MB: This is a pipe!
Cat: Miaouuw.
MB: This is not a pipe?
Cat: Miaw.
MB: This is not a pipe.
Cat: Mm …
MB: This is a pipe!
Cat: Miaouw.
MB: This is not a pipe!
Cat: miAO … miAOUW.
MB: This is a pipe!?
Cat: Miaouw.
MB: This is not a pipe!
Cat: Miaou.
MB: This is a pipe!
Cat: MiAOU … miao.
MB: This is not a pipe!
Cat: Miaou … miaw.
MB: This is a pipe.
Cat: Miaouu.
MB: This is not a pipe.
Cat: MiAOOUU.
MB: This is a … This is a pipe!
Cat: Miao …
MB: This is a pipe.
Cat: Miaouw.
MB: This is not a pipe.
Cat: Miaoouu.
MB: This is a pipe?!
Cat: Mm …
MB: This is not a pipe.
Cat: Mm … mm …
MB: This is a pipe.
Cat: Miaow.
MB: This is not a pipe.
Cat: Miaoouu.
MB: This is a pipe?!
Cat: Mm …
MB: This is not a pipe.
Cat: Mm … mm …
MB: This is a pipe.
Cat: Miaow.
MB: This is not a pipe.
Cat: MiAOUW.
MB: This is not a pipe.
Cat: Miao …
MB: This is a pipe.
Cat: Miaouw.
MB: Pipe is not.
Cat: Mmi …
MB: This is a pipe.
Cat: MiaOU.
MB: This is not a pipe.
Cat: MiAAOUW.
MB: This is not a pipe.
Cat: miAou.
MB: This is a pipe.
Cat: MiAAOU … mm …
MB: This is a pipe.
Cat: Miaaou.
MB: This is not a pipe.
Cat: Miaao … mmi.
MB: This is a pipe!
Cat: MIAAOUU.
MB: This is not a pipe.
Cat: MiAAOUUW.
MB: This is a pipe!
Cat: MIAAOU … MiAAOU … MIAOUW.
MB: This is a pipe.
Cat: Miaouw.
MB: This is not a pipe.
Cat: … mm … Miao.
MB: This is a pipe.
Cat: MiAOU … MiAOU … MiAOU.
Cat: … MiaouW
MB: This is not a pipe.
Cat: … MiaOUW
MB: This is an interview given at the Musée d’Art Moderne, Département des Aigles, 12 Burgplatz, Düsseldorf.
Cat: MiAAAOUU … MIAAOU.
Cat: … MIAOOU … MIAOOUW.
Cat: … MIAAOU … MIAOU … MIAAOUW.
MB: This is an interview given at the Musée d’Art Moderne, Département des Aigles, 12 Burgplatz, Düsseldorf.
Cat: Miaou … Miaouw.
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