Der malende Mund
The Painting Mouth
- Date of creation : 1978
- Country : Germany
- Duration : 00:30:00
- Artist - Author : Jochen Gerz
Description
"Jochen Gerz and a monitor complement one another in various different configurations (portrait, foetus, chair, birth, fist closed in greetin and a Nazi salute). These are recorded by a camera and played back on a montior (closed-circuit). The performance ends with Jochen Gerz crawling like a snail with the monitor on his back through the audience toward the camera at the other end of the room. He applies photographic opaque to the lens with a brush held in his mouth, thus obscuring his own image. A manuscript of the same title accompanies the performances."
(Source: Volker Rattemeyer & Renate Petzinger (eds.), Jochen Gerz, Performances, Installationen und Arbeiten im öffentlichen Raum, Werkverzeichnis Band 1, Nürnberg, Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg, 1999, p.60.)
Additional Informations
Also performed in Genève (18/01/1979) and Bonn (1979)
(Source: Volker Rattemeyer & Renate Petzinger (eds.), Jochen Gerz, Performances, Installationen und Arbeiten im öffentlichen Raum, Werkverzeichnis Band 1, Nürnberg, Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg, 1999, p.60.)
- Type : video performance
- Place of production : Wien
Publications and Periodicals which reference the work
Volker Rattemeyer & Renate Petzinger (eds.), Jochen Gerz - Performances, Installationen und Arbeiten im öffentlichen Raum, Werkverzeichnis Band I, Bonn, 1999.