THE FORGETTING OF PROPER NAMES

HD 2009, 3 min. 45 sec.
Short animated video features works by such artists as Robert smithson, Robert Morris, Walter de Marie and Wolf Vostell presented as an autonomously developing, active collection. In the essay used in the voice-over Sigmund Freud examines a situation where familiar names are re- placed in our memory by ‘substitutes‘ for no reason and cannot be recalled.

© Installation view of the 19th Biennale of Sydney, 2014 at Cockatoo Island Courtesy the artist and ZAK | BRANICKA, Berlin / Sebastian Kriete