Jimmie DurhamMaria Thereza Alves

1996

Video, 00:01:12.
Materials: PAL

Collection: Courtesy of Galerie Wien Lukatsch, Berlin.

"In the video a stone attempts to answer the telephone. The telephone is on the ground, looking very similar to Joseph Beuys’s Earth Telephone. This, I’m sorry to confess, is simply one of those coincidences that so often happen. I was not commenting on Beuys’s telephone. At that time I did not know of it." [full text here]

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