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Category:
ARTWORK
Type:
video art
Keywords:
exhibition / interface / interface / museum / performance
Creation Date:
2003
Description:
In the military jargon Check Your Six means look behind. Two figures are moving slowly in a classical painting gallery with a huge knife. Without cutting we could move behind this image, where we see a performance. We zoom in and out between an abstract and a realistic level of two figures acting.
Who is the third who walks always beside you?
When I count, there are only you and I together
But when I look ahead up the white road
There is always another one walking beside you
Gliding wrap in a brown mantle, hooded
I do not know whether a man or a woman
- But who is that on the other side of you?
T. S. Eliot: The Waste Land
The text is inspired by the account of an Antarctic expedition. Eliot explains in his original note: "It was related that the party of explorers, at the extremity of their strength, had the constant delusion that there was one more member then could actually be counted". (J.S.)
Who is the third who walks always beside you?
When I count, there are only you and I together
But when I look ahead up the white road
There is always another one walking beside you
Gliding wrap in a brown mantle, hooded
I do not know whether a man or a woman
- But who is that on the other side of you?
T. S. Eliot: The Waste Land
The text is inspired by the account of an Antarctic expedition. Eliot explains in his original note: "It was related that the party of explorers, at the extremity of their strength, had the constant delusion that there was one more member then could actually be counted". (J.S.)
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Original Title (English):
Check Your Six