Joseph Kosuth
"Texts for Nothing"
Samuel Beckett, in play
2010

"The installation is based on particular texts, from Samuel’s Beckett’s ‘Texts for Nothing.’ Abandoned for years by the major critics of Beckett’s work and rarely included in the anthologies of his work, ‘Texts for Nothing’ was seen as outside of the mainstream of Beckett’s writing. The work has often been viewed as a pause in the oeuvre of Beckett, for Kosuth, these texts are quintessential Beckett, a consummate example of his particular artistic integrity. Beckett’s project as an artist was in one important way parallel to that of Kosuth: both practices manifest concern with meaning. Beckett approaches the question of meaning from the absence of meaning rather than, as Kosuth does, from questions concerned with the production of meaning."
https://www.liarumma.com/exhibitions/texts-for-nothing-samuel-beckett-in-play-2010-lia-rumma-milan