The Sleep of Reason

The video shows my face. The camera does not move and there are no cuts.
My eyes gaze into the camera until I faint.
The Sleep of Reason does not document the blows staged in October of 1998.
This was the realization of an image.

As an art historian, I am interested in text production which allows space for bodies. Art history is a discipline which has traditionally bound the writer to disembodied and neutral consideration. It was this framework, with its repressive image of language, which allowed me to understand my body as a borderline between a history of art (my self)...

Orig. Title
Der Schlaf der Vernunft
Year
1999
Country
Austria
Duration
15 min
Director
Michaela Pöschl
Category
Avantgarde/Arts
Orig. Language
No Dialogue
Credits
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