Sinnesentzug (1976)
Alleen performance (Stationsweg, Den Haag)
Media
Omschrijving
Ik leef 72 uur in een ruimte zonder te horen en te zien, daarvan 48 uur zonder te spreken en 24 uur met een dwangbuis.
Beschreibung
Videoaufzeichnung, sch/w., 60 Minuten, Foto- und Polaroiddokumentation.
Ich lebe 72 Stunden in einem Raum ohne zu hören und zu sehen, davon 48 Stunden ohne zu sprechen und 24 Stunden in einer Zwangsjacke.
Description
This video forms a documentation of an experiment during which Holtappels stays in a room for consequently three days, progressively deprived from basic senses. The first day he is not able to hear and see, the next day he is not able to hear, see and speak and the last day he is not able to hear, see and speak and also wears a straitjacket. The registration follows Holtappels in his physical experience of the situation; we can see the way he is moving, how he is trying to find his way in the room, writing on a note book, sitting on a chair, eating and sleeping, being fed and put to bed. The use of their own body as a means of observation, perception and self realisation of certain events and situations is central to the work of Boegel and Holtappels from this period, as they are trying to investigate and envisage the forces behind the physical and emotional expressions of human feelings and ways of behaviour.
Netherlands Media Art Institute, Angelina Tsitoura