Integrated texts refer to the texts disseminated as part of Future Reflections' performative presentations. These include literature referring to the presentation disseminated in the group's conference packs at the event. For example, Future Reflections produced a flyer for FR5: Future (Re)iteration, which surveyed the group's six projects to date. Brief summaries of these projects were brought together with sponsorship information and a working diagram of the group's participatory dynamic. Produced specifically for the Art of Research: Research Narratives Symposium (October 2008), this flyer formed part of Future (Re)iteration as a mini retrospective. As such, it well exemplifies an integrated text.

Thomas Hirschhorn is another artist who uses integrated texts in his work. In a presentation on his recent exhibition The Eye (Wiener Secession, Summer 2008) at the Royal Academy (London on November 5, 2008), he framed language as a material for his installations. It is like the other "stuff" comprising the exhibition, such as tape, cardboard, plastic and so on. It is distinguished, however, by its portability. This ephemera affords an alternative point of access into the exhibition at a different time and place. It creates another opening through which viewers can engage with his work.

Hirschhorn talked about the specific joy he experiences through the dissemination of these texts. He showed before and after images of them stacked in the Wiener Secession. By the end of the exhibition, a significant number had been taken away. This difference, he said, made him happy.

Go to http://artnews.org/artist.php?i=110 to read Marcus Steinweg's reflections on the text he produced for Hirschhorn's installation Double Garage.