Das Vergehen von Hören und Sehen
The Passing of Hearing and Seeing
CR 41. Year 1974
In this piece, all the available media are destroyed. The audience confronted with this destruction really does experience the passing of hearing and seeing.
Margarethe Joachimsen 1975 Translated by e_CR editors
In dieser Arbeit wird alles, was an Medien vorhanden ist, vernichtet. Dem Publikum, das mit diesen Zerstörungen konfrontiert wird, vergeht im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes Hören und Sehen.
Margarethe Joachimsen 1975
… A duel between the artist, the “original”, and the mechanism, the medium of reproduction. The issue of deterioration of the original with regard to time is a recurrent theme in Gerz’s work.
Jean-Michel Bouhours 2002
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Performance / Installation
(with Nikolaus Einhorn)
2 chairs, 2 cameras, 14 b/w films, 2 microphones, 2 amplifiers, 2 speakers, 2 partition screens
Two persons sit facing one another at a distance of 20 metres, taking photographs of each other. The exposed rolls of film are taken out of the camera, unrolled and hung on two opposite walls. The sounds of the camera shutters are played back from loudspeakers placed opposite one another.
Exhibitions
Bochum 1974
Bibliography
I: Karlsruhe 1975a, pp. 18, 132. Paris 1975a, pp. 16, 36-39, 60. Chur 1978, p. 6. Bielefeld 1981, pp. 100, 102
II: Hartmann 2, 1978, p. 3
III: Pagé 1975