"Selections from Fidget" was published on the occasion of the Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris' commission between Theo Bleckmann and Kenneth Goldsmith and in conjunction with exhibitions at Printer Matter, Inc. and Stadium Projects in New York City in 1998. "'Fidget' is writer Kenneth Goldsmith's transcription of every movement made by his body during thirteen hours on Bloomsday (June 16), 1997. Originally commissioned by the Whitney Museum of American Art as a collaboration with vocalist Theo Bleckmann, 'Fidget' attempts to reduce the body to a catalogue of mechanical movements by a strict act of observation. The stress of this rigorous exercise creates a condition of shifting reference points and multiple levels of observation that inevitably undermines the author's objective approach, and the trajectory of the work begins to change..." -- publisher's statement.