VALIE EXPORT
Sehtext: Fingergedicht, 1973
Video based on the series of photographs
of the same title "Sight Poem: Finger Poem", 1969
Video, black and white, silent, 1 min 50 sec
Performer: VALIE EXPORT
Using a “finger signal language” developed by children, VALIE EXPORT writes letter by letter: “ich sage die zeige mit zeichen im zeigen der sage (frei nach Martin Heidegger).” [I say the sign with signals in the sign of the saying (as Martin Heidegger might have said)]. (Sabine Breitwieser)
GF0000233.00.0-1997
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