What are the critical terms through which we approach the question of 'sociality' in art? In 1972 Lynda Benglis and Robert Morris started an artistic dialogue through a collaborative project that, using video as a medium, seemed to turn, self-reflexively, around their evolving relationship. The two resulting works, Benglis's Mumble (1972) and Morris's Exchange(1973) suggest that this relationship is the unique result of the productive framework of televisual technologies, and has no self-evident correlate in any reality beyond this framework. Ultimately, this collaborative work opens up certain fundamental questions concerning the social art practices of the 1960s and 70s, and calls out for redefinitions of the very models of sociality that tend to underpin our discussion of such work.
