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On 10 april 2008 there was a small gathering event at the Reformuhka cafetaria on the occasion of the launch of the second issue of A4, a magazine-edition by Lode Geens.
In an appearance of Jan-Carl Voske, DDV made use of this Trojan Horse to do a performance right within the enemy camp.
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«Authentisch zu sein nützt gar nichts. Authentisch ist
jedes Bild, besonderes die schlechtesten Bilder zeigen
ganz authentisch, was mit dem Maler und der Malerei
los ist. Das macht sie ja so uninteressant.»
(Gerhard Richter)
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The action started with spreading out a large white canvas on the floor in a corner of the room and throwing a number of printed reports (get pdf) towards the audience. On a small tv-monitor played an excerpt of a documentary on the Baader-Meinhof-Group, you could see live images of the arrest of Andreas Baader and Holger Meins, who had to undress until his underwear in the middle of a courtyard in Frankfurt.
The action continued with meticulously placing all objects and books mentioned in "Ausschnitten von Briefe Gudrun Fuchslein an ihre Schwester Nina" onto the canvas and the floor around it. The canvas was turned into a cell.
When all items were placed in and around the cell DDV took out several ingredients for cooking: butter, sugar, eggs, flour. Then he took one of his ALDI-bags used in the event "13 Galleries and only One DDV in town" and poured the earth from the Hole out.
Carefully measuring all the ingredients, including the earth, he mixed everything into dough and proceeded to bake two classic sand-cookies.
When the cookies were ready and cooled off, DDV proceeded to undress until his underwear in the middle of the canvas and lay down. Then he force-fed himself violently to eat the cookies with earth from his own Hole.
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photos by Timothy Seghers
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[10. April 2008]
Dear [ALL]:
DDV hereby NOT grants you permission to exhibit, publish, copy, reproduce, sell and distribute photographic and video documentation of the work "Jan-Carl Voske - Aktion im Reformuhka am 10. april 2008" as performed by DDV on 10 April 2008, nor to incorporate the copyright work, in whole or in part, into derivative works for exhibition, publication, reproduction, sale and distribution worldwide, in print, photography, video or by any other analog or digital means.
Sincerely,
[DDV]
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