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Categories: Video
Works by Jochen Gerz:
2146 Stones – Monument Against Racism
Exhibition of Jochen Gerz Next to His Photographic Reproduction Auto-portrait 71 Pictures at an Exhibition The Berkeley Oracle The Dachau Project Mona L.’s Smile Remains Unanswered The Head of M The Mouth that Paints The Trans-Sib. Prospect These Words are My Flesh IBM Colour Ribbon Warning: Art Corrupts Life Marsyas (From Death, Out Of Life) Photo/Text 51 Purple Cross for absent now Revolution 1971 Calling to the Point of Exhaustion Writing by Hand Snake Hoods & Dragons' Dreams
Jochen Gerz
«Video Opera House»
After the performance-oriented tapes of the 1970s, 'Video Opera House' marks Gerz's first attempt to reflect video as a narrative medium. The 3 chapters of the tape are realized with simple technical means. The images are economically staged, usually somewhere between a static and an almost object-like calm, but sometimes their continuous flow is interrupted by a repetition or still image. The narrator speaks from OFF. Chapter 1 deals with sexual identity, whereby the man/artist speaks of himself as a woman/opera. Chapter 2 treats the staging using technical media. Chapter 3 varies the artistic positions once more with ironic switches: the knit cap smokes.
Rudolf Frieling
