Hierophanie 2

CR 119. Year 1995

Hierophanie 2 Cr 119 Web

Die Lüge hat ein kurzes Bein, sagte man im letzten Krieg. Später hieß es: Wörter lügen. Was ist heute heilig für Sie?

Jochen Gerz asks questions, but not for the purpose of inquiring – and at first this is a bit irritating ... (Is he like a clever investigator who pretends not to be interested in the crime at all?) Since his questions are not real questions, the answers are not real answers either but initially resemble somewhat unstructured statements.

Söke Dinkla 2006. Translated by e_CR editors

Jochen Gerz stellt Fragen, jedoch nicht im Sinne des Abfragens - und das irritiert am Anfang ein wenig … (Ähnelt er einem intelligenten Ermittler, der sich vordergründig für die Tat garnicht interessiert?) Da seine Fragen keine richtigen Fragen sind, sind die Antworten auch keine richtigen Antworten, sondern zunächst eher wenig strukturierten Aussagen.

Söke Dinkla 2006

The experiential value of individual engagement with artworks is supplemented by a social moment whereby the question of a collective creativity and authorship comes to the fore that places the focus more on the process than the product. Gerz’s work allows for the exploration of an expanded experience of the effect of art when the art is manifested without a work of art (but with an effect).

Paolo Bianchi 2016

Performance / Installation

Walltext, Microphone, stand, amplifier, loudspeaker, author's certificates (ink on paper), each 21 x 14.8 cm

Visitors to the exhibition entitled Infrasound in the Sankt Michaelis Church in Hamburg are invited to answer a question by speaking into a microphone. Anybody who answers receives an author's certificate.

Exhibition

Sankt Michaelis, Hamburg 1995

My name is Jochen Gerz