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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
Jochen Gerz «Mona L.’s Smile Remains Unanswered» Jochen Gerz «These Words are My Flesh» Samuel Beckett »Nacht und Träume« Jochen Gerz «Life» Bruce Nauman «Slow Angle Walk»
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.
