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Categories: Television | Action | Text
Keywords: Body
Works by Jochen Gerz:
2146 Stones – Monument Against Racism
Exhibition of Jochen Gerz Next to His Photographic Reproduction Auto-portrait 71 Pictures at an Exhibition The Berkeley Oracle The Dachau Project Mona L.’s Smile Remains Unanswered The Head of M The Mouth that Paints The Trans-Sib. Prospect These Words are My Flesh IBM Colour Ribbon Warning: Art Corrupts Life Marsyas (From Death, Out Of Life) Photo/Text 51 Purple Cross for absent now Revolution 1971 Calling to the Point of Exhaustion Snake Hoods & Dragons' Dreams Video Opera House
Joseph Beuys «and in us ... under us ... flooded» ADA – Aktionen der Avantgarde «ADA - Avant-garde actions» Martin Dodge «UUNet» Martin Dodge «Abilene network»
Jochen Gerz
«Writing by Hand»
With no writing utensil but his hand, Jochen Gerz writes on the wall of a building: ‘Diese Worte sind mein Fleisch und mein Blut’ (‘These words are my flesh and my blood’). Towards the end of the sentence, traces of his bleeding fingers can be seen.
