video, a mental health machine

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© Generali Foundation Collection—Permanent Loan to the Museum der Moderne Salzburg, © Bildrecht, Photo: Rainer Iglar

Richard Kriesche

video, a mental health machine, 1978

(Videodemonstration Nr. 30)

Relic of the video performance, at the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, FR (1978), 1 painter's suit with radiation-sensitive paint (original), 1 TV monitor, infrared lamp (red light), depth lamp (blue light); (reconstruction 2022), approx. 60 x 60 x 45 cm, 2 C-prints (documentation 2022), 39,9 x 49,9 cm each Dimensions variable

GF0031861.00.0-2022

Artwork text

"The housing of the first TV contains an infrared lamp (red light) and a depth emitter (blue light), light sources used in the medical field for irradiation. The second television shows the current television program. The artist's upper body is painted with a radiation-sensitive paint. After pressing the program monitor against the upper body, it radiates the radiated image. The radiating body is transmitter and receiver at the same time". (Richard Kriesche in: Sphären der Kunst)