Italian Reading of Thomas Jefferson
CR 35. Year 1973
For Gerz, the notion of culture as it is generally understood represents the artificially established system of rules that sets out to shape the final and universally binding form, incompatible with the reality of life – exactly what he tries to counteract with his work.
Eleonora Louis, Mechthild Widrich 1997. Translated by e_CR editors
Für Gerz stellt der Begriff der Kultur, so wie er weitgehend verstanden wird, genau jenes künstlich aufgestellte Regelsystem dar, dessen Hang zu Gestaltung der endgültigen und allgemein verbindlichen Form, unvereinbar mit der Lebenswirklichkeit, er seine Arbeit entgegensetzt.
Eleonora Louis, Mechthild Widrich 1997
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Performance
Performance Table, chair, lamp, book Duration 20 minutes
Jochen Gerz, who does not speak Italian, reads an Italian translation of a text by Thomas Jefferson aloud.
See the video documentation of the performance (672).
Realisation
Videogramma, Firenze 1973
Bibliography
I: Bruxelles 1975. Buenos Aires 1975, p. 17. Paris 1975b, p. 10. Bielefeld 1981, p. 98
V: Gieser 2022, pp. 328-329
Documentation
Video, 11:45 min, (Videogramma, Firenze 1973)
Vidéo Les Beaux Jours, Strasbourg, and imai, inter media art institute, Düsseldorf
Exhibitions of the Documentation
Hattingen 1974. Köln 1974. Paris 1974. Bruxelles 1975. Ferrera 1975 (Buenos Aires 1975). Aarhaus 1976