Performance art - 9 September 2017 - The Hole I've been Diggin' for Gordon is filled with precious books from my private library. All the pages from the books are ripped and torn in half and thrown in the Hole. The title refers to Gordon Matta-Clark whose last and major work ‘Office Baroque’ in Antwerpen I illegally visited at the start of my career as an artist. The performance/installation evolved into a ‘mash-up’ with ingredients from the works of various avantgarde artists from the 70’s. For instance a slant row of florescent lights inspired by Dan Flavin takes care of lightning and an endless ladder as imagined by Vito Acconci makes it possible to get in and out of the hole. The work was made visible through a number of side actions and performances where I used some of the dirt I had been digging up. Most of the dirt was used to fill up James Lee Byars' tomb.

An AI image for my 'Rippin' for Gordon' performance. The description above was the prompt for the generated image.