It is then art and theory merge into an unmistakable, indisoluble clump. It was also impossible to separate the texts from the works, in fact the texts were often themselves the works - as, for example, in much of Lawrence Weiner's work. The problem with text-based theory is that it can never escape from the demands of linearity and grammar. Moreover it is always imbedded in the work.
Theory is too important to be left to the theoreticians.