Trampling on Rights

By stepping on the word “Recht” (literally “right,” also meaning “law” in German), visitors to an exhibition manifested the meaning of a German turn of phrase implying a trampling upon rights supposedly protected by the law. The work only first became realized via the pragmatic communicative aspect of the viewers’ bodily action upon the textual field, the bodily interaction between viewer and text. It is only with the participation of the public that the work was produced. The visitors themselves executed the speech act and thereby discovered that justice is nothing other than a system of speech acts, in essence of fictions (fictional realism). (Peter Weibel)