“This
new series of works I have been doing is a kind of physical manifestation of the principle of freedom of speech and expression that the dispute is about,” Christoph Büchel (pronounced BOO-shel) said in an e-mail message to answer several questions about the work. “It says to the museum: You cannot shut me up. You tried, with your lawsuits and your fancy pro bono lawyers, but you cannot do it. You destroyed the installation ‘Training Ground for Democracy,’ but it mutated into an ongoing metaproject.”
excerpted from Accusations, Depositions: Just More Fodder for Art by Randy Kennedy
The New York Times
Published: March 2, 2008