That arrangement as central to the definition of certain works is supported by examples of the potential failure or destruction of a work that relies on the particular placement of elements if that placement is not respected. Witness Donald Judd’s protests over the display of his modular works with uneven or incorrect intervals. And witness, too, the controversy that greeted the proposal to transport the installation known as the Beuys Block at the Dramstadt Landesmuseum, which Beuys had arranged over many years, to Berlin for a 1988 exhibition at the Martin-Gropius-Bau. Since the objects that make up the block would presumably have been carefully catalogued and documented before their removal, they could theoretically have been returned to their original positions. If, however, arrangement is defined as part of the making of the installation, then their rearrangement, even in order to restore them to their original configuration, could be seen as a form of remaking.
Buskirk, 2003, p. 185 - 186
