Remember what Duchamp said: The life of an artwork is short—it amounts to ten to twenty years! And that is the maximum! And then comes death! Death! Oh, death! But death wears two different masks: that of deterioration and decay, or that of freezing and zombification! These are the alternatives! Between zombification and decay! Between a malicious vampire and simple vanishing! What do you want to be, ladies and gentlemen? A vampire-like monster or colorful slime? The ladies and gentlemen of course cry out: “Monsters, monsters … just not slime! Monsters!” “And why?” we ask. Why this fear of disintegration, becoming earth, soil, manure? Why this fear of naked transformation? Because all of the surrounding culture only gives us examples of this monstrosity, of freezing over! Even rotting is put into a frame!!! Decay in a frame! Decay in the museum! We say: the frame itself must rot! Disappear!

From Alexander Brener and Barbara Schurz’s Demolish Serious Culture!!!, Vienna: Edition Selene, 2000, pp. 109-110.