Purple Cross for Absent Now/Croix pourpre pour présent absent
- Date of creation : 1979
- Country : Germany
- Artist - Author : Jochen Gerz
Description
"The installation is preceded by a performance in which members of the audience touch a rubber cord leading into an adjacent room, where it is looped around the neck of Jochen Gerz. The cord tightens each time it is touched. In the installation, a monitor placed in a darkened room shows a recording of the 1980 performance at the Frankfurter Kunstverein. Esther Shalev-Gerz participates un subsequent performances. A manuscript of the same title accompanies the performance."
(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, pp.70-71.)
Additional Informations
Also performed in München (1979), Frankfurt (1980), Kassel (1987), Rennes (1987), Yolohama (1987), Karlsruhe (1988), Montréal (1989), Paris (1991), Vancouver (1994), Newport Beach (1995), Purchase (1996), Winnipeg (1996/97), Tel Aviv (1995), London (1996), Wiesbaden (1997)
(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.71.)
- Types : installation, video performance
- Place of production : Genève
Publications and Periodicals which reference the work
Volker Rattemeyer & Renate Petzinger (eds.), Jochen Gerz, Performances, Installationen und Arbeiten im öffentlichen Raum, Werkverzeichnis Band 1, Nürnberg, Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg, 1999.