Formalism

How does formalism relate to my practise. Being someone who places a lot of importance on ideas and concepts, I find it hard to separate these from my work, nor do I want to. However formalism is intriguing, especially in relation to audience, the form is the content, everything you need to see is right in front of you, provides complete new way of valuing art. I think it makes art more challenging, how do value something so subjective? Currently I am in a rut with my work, the independent study although very exciting has left my with too many ideas and no structure, perhaps a way out would be to adopt to temporary formalist approach towards art and work on form. However where does the form come from, it must come from somewhere?

"Paintings are about paint." - how can a painting be about paint?

How can formalism be applied to video work? 

painting strictly visual - except out body can see depth as it knows how to move through space. Video work is movement through space. 

Formalism turns the viewer purely into an eye, what if i could turn myself purely into an eye, would it be possible to separate my viewing from the world around me? How can the eye be just an eye, with nothing connected to it, how can it make sense and store what it is seeing. NOTHING CAN BE PURELY VISUAL. But I want to try and reason with the ideas of Greenberg 

Autonomous artworks. Independent do not need anything else of the world, self contained and self sufficient. How could i respond to this through work, creating two artworks, the same but claiming one as formalist and one as not, through the eyes of what theory is it most sucessful.

-Go to galleries as an 'eye' - view works just an ellusive eye. Be just the eye- HOW?

Eglatrian art for everyone - is it though? 

isnt formalism just impossible? Or it reaches a point with no room to go higher. Death of himself. Suicide of Greenberg?