Geduld (patience)
Citygallery, D-München 2006, Duration 15 minutes



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Description of action BBB Johannes Deimling is standing in front of the audience and looks into the eyes of each visitor. BBB takes big letters made out of cardboard and tries to fix them on the wall. The letters are falling all the time on the floor, because there is no glue or tape that fix them on the wall. BBB tries again and again. With the time it is recognizable that the word which he wants to write is GEDULD (patience). He tries to fix the letters with his hands and feets, but there is no chance to fix them. After a while suddenly a man comes out of the audience and helps BBB to hold the brown cardboard letters on the wall. He comes without asking for help. After the word GEDULD is with the friendly assistance of the man clearly readable. BBB takes the letters and shreds the cardboard into pieces. The scraps of paper he puts into a bowl of water. He takes the mass out and forms out of the wet brown material a “loaf of bread”. He takes a piece of this cardboard bread and eat it. While chewing this he goes to each person and gives everybody a piece of the patience-bread.
photo: Florian Freund |
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