Identification
Identifikation
Jochen Gerz with Raymonde Arcier
CR 29. Year 1972
… We can see each of Gerz' work as a kind of self-portrait, a renewed skeptical positing of the definition of his identity and a confrontation with the inner "other", which activates structures of existence the underlying code of which he cannot reach. The skepticism frustrates the definition of the self's identity each time anew, and at the same time weaves the web of both artistic and his private existence.
Mordechai Omer 1995
Categories
Keywords
Performance
Duration 20 minutes
Two performers standing opposite one another touch each other in 16 successive, predominantly symmetrical motions.
The piece French Wall # 12 is realized on the basis of the performance (526).
Realisation
Dialette, April 1972
Bibliography
I: Darmstadt 1973, pp. 72-88. Karlsruhe 1975a, pp. 19-20, 120. Paris 1975a, pp. 17, 55. Bielefeld 1981, pp. 10, 92
II: Red. 7, 1972. Red. 4, 1973, pp. 22-23