This results in conflicting energies that appear to be incompatible with the self - image of Conceptual art and its emphasis on rationalization since the 1960's: in employing her handwriting as a medium and assembling material - informed montages, Darboven is, furthermore inserting a subjective ductus into her conceptual works, literally inscribing her own life - time, the span in which her works were written, into these: «am burgberg —
heute... und keine worte mehr... und eine welt
noch.»