Augenzeuge (eye witness)
Performance Tage, Sülzer Salon, D-Köln 2001, Duration 12 minutes





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Description of action: With a glockenspiel in my hand I enter the gallery space. During I am going I play the scale from the tone C outgoing up and again down, and up and down,…. At one point in the gallery I stop, play the scale up and again down, this time only up to the tone D and put the glockenspiel on the ground. From a plastic foil I take a fish and place it on the glockenspiel. With a big bread knife I cut off the heel of a loaf of bread and place it on two doll legs. I hollow out two breads and wear them as shoes. I let a toy airplane flying through the space and land the plane into a piece of bacon, american confetti I strew over the situation. I bind a book on my head and break 31 pencils with my knee. I take off the book from my head and open hastily 20 tablets of Aspirin and throw them all into a glass of water. With foil I bind two packages of butter around my knees, burn a german flag, rub the ashes on my forehead, bite lengthwise in a banana, fall on the knees and rub with the hands strongly my eyes red. I take the fish from the glockenspiel and place it into a swimming wing, blow up the plenum chambers and place this object on the ground. Then I strike the tone C on the glockenspiel and leave the space.
photos: Pietro Pellini
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