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Categories: Action | Installation
Keywords: Exhibition | Time
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 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 Writing by Hand Snake Hoods & Dragons' Dreams Video Opera House
Jochen Gerz
«The Trans-Sib. Prospect»
Jochen Gerz' contribution to the 'documenta 6' in Kassel was a journey spent in a shuttered compartment on the Trans-Siberian Railway for 16 days and 16 nights. He took along 16 slates on which he rested his feet. All evidence of the journey had to be burned subsequently, meaning his footprints on the slates were the sole surviving evidence. The audience's uncertainty as to whether the journey ever took place was part of his concept.
