This is a translation and transcription of Marcel Broodthaers’s 1970 audio work Interview with a Cat.
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Marcel Broodthaers: Is that a person a good painting? … Does it represent what you anticipate from that extremely recent improvement which goes from conceptual art to this brand-new variation of a kind of figuration, as one might state?
Cat: Miaow.
MB: Do you believe so?
Cat: Miiaaow … mm … miaow … miaow.
MB: And yet this color is extremely plainly redolent of the painting that was being performed in the duration of abstract art, isn’t it?
Cat: Miaaow … miaaow … miiaow … miaow.
MB: Are you sure it’s not a brand-new form of academicism?
Cat: Miaow.
MB: Yes, however if it’s a bold development it’s still a contestable one.
Cat: Miaow.
MB: It’s still …
Cat: Miaow.
MB: Er … It’s still a matter of markets …
Cat: Miaow.
MB: What will individuals who purchased the previous things do?
Cat: Miaow.
MB: Will they offer them?
Cat: Miiaow … my own.
MB: Or will they continue? What do you believe? … Because, at the minute, a great deal of artists are questioning that.
Cat: Miaaow … miaow …
MB: In that case close the museums!
Cat: MIAOW!
MB: This is a pipeline.
Cat: Miaow.
MB: This is not a pipeline.
Cat: Miaow.
MB: This is a pipeline!
Cat: meow.
MB: This is not a pipeline!
Cat: Meow.
MB: This is a pipeline!
Cat: Miaouuw.
MB: This is not a pipeline?
Cat: Meow.
MB: This is not a pipeline.
Cat: Mm …
MB: This is a pipeline!
Cat: Miaow.
MB: This is not a pipeline!
Cat: miAO … miAOUW.
MB: This is a pipeline!?
Cat: Miaow.
MB: This is not a pipeline!
Cat: Meow.
MB: This is a pipeline!
Cat: Meow… meow.
MB: This is not a pipeline!
Cat: Meow… meow.
MB: This is a pipeline.
Cat: Meow.
MB: This is not a pipeline.
Cat: MiAOOUU.
MB: This is a … This is a pipeline!
Cat: Miao …
MB: This is a pipeline.
Cat: Miaow.
MB: This is not a pipeline.
Cat: Meow
MB: This is a pipeline?!
Cat: Mm …
MB: This is not a pipeline.
Cat: Mm … mm …
MB: This is a pipeline.
Cat: Miaow.
MB: This is not a pipeline.
Cat: Meow
MB: This is a pipeline?!
Cat: Mm …
MB: This is not a pipeline.
Cat: Mm … mm …
MB: This is a pipeline.
Cat: Miaow.
MB: This is not a pipeline.
Cat: MiAOW.
MB: This is not a pipeline.
Cat: Miao …
MB: This is a pipeline.
Cat: Miaow.
MB: Pipe is not.
Cat: Mmi …
MB: This is a pipeline.
Cat: Meow.
MB: This is not a pipeline.
Cat: MiAAOW.
MB: This is not a pipeline.
Cat: meow.
MB: This is a pipeline.
Cat: MiAAOU … mm …
MB: This is a pipeline.
Cat: Meow
MB: This is not a pipeline.
Cat: Meow … mmm.
MB: This is a pipeline!
Cat: MIAAOUU.
MB: This is not a pipeline.
Cat: MiAAOUUW.
MB: This is a pipeline!
Cat: MIAAOU … MiAAOU … MIAOUW.
MB: This is a pipeline.
Cat: Miaow.
MB: This is not a pipeline.
Cat: … mm … Miao.
MB: This is a pipeline.
Cat: Meow… Meow… Meow.
Cat: … MiaouW
MB: This is not a pipeline.
Cat: … MIAOW
MB: This is an interview provided at the Museum of Modern Art, Eagle Department, 12 Burgplatz, Düsseldorf.
Cat: MiAAAOUU … MIAAOUU.
Cat: … MIAOOU … MIAOOUW.
Cat: … MIAAOU … MIAOU … MIAAOUW.
MB: This is an interview provided at the Museum of Modern Art, Eagle Department, 12 Burgplatz, Düsseldorf.
Cat: Miaou … Miaouw.
