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"the obstacle is tautology": this statement rests on a general proposition according to which conceptual art does not exist except when it is brought into being by repetition. This is a strong proposition. I claim that a being is an object belonging to the world and that it has no meaning when it is outside of "the stream of life", as Lawrence Weiner would say. A tautology, on the other hand, does not state anything apart of itself, its pure form, and destroys the Saussurian structure of a sign (signifier/signified) by not indicating anything outside of itself. In this sense, the traditional tautological conceptual art is not an object of the world - it can become one only when it is treated as a model and when its tautological functioning is taken as a reference. If we treat tautology as an obstacle we can use words in time and space to speak against it and produce echo.