Performance art - 20 September 1986 - When visiting Corbion where the ruins still could be seen tucked away in the forest of the little cottage where French poets Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud lived together for a short while 100 years earlier I asked Danny to lay down naked on his stomach with his legs open a piece of wood tied between his ankles his hands tied behind his back. #performanceart #ddv #performan #aiart
Performance art - 13 June 1986 - I was locked in an iron cage. While AMVK read a text about willpower I pulled myself forward with the cage by a rope. The sound of the iron cage dragging across the floor was electronically amplified. #performanceart #ddv #performan #aiart
Performance art - 2 May 1985 - Live-footage close-ups of me filmed by AMVK stuffing cotton in my mouth applying make-up and finally cutting my face were edited with shots from Roman Polanski’s ‘Le Locataire’ (aka The Tenant). #performanceart #ddv #performan #aiart
Performance art - 23 October 1984 - I repeated the text “The Lips of Osiris Ani, Triumphant, are the Lips of Anpu” with my head immersed in water. The sound was amplified by a hydrophone. AMVK read passages from the Egyptian Book of the Dead. The sound was amplified by a microphone. Behind us a film was projected with images of mouths of humans and beaks of animals. #performanceart #ddv #performan #aiart
Performance art - 22 September 1984 - In an abandoned house I was laying in a room half covered by a blanket tied up and with my head in a metal cage. On the wall hung a work by AMVK about a kidnapped Italian boy. #performanceart #ddv #performan #aiart
Performance art - 13 July 1984 - On various locations in the former concentration camp ‘Fort van Breendonk’ I recorded several soundperformances with Paul Hurst using portable shortwave radios and cassetteplayers. #performanceart #ddv #performan #aiart
Performance art - 25 February 1984 - I was hanging upside down from a heavy block and tackle while films and slides about Robert Oppenheimer and death were projected onto me. In a microphone I repeated: “Now I am death the destroyer of worlds”. The sound of my voice was electronically distorted into an unearthly grinding and thundering by Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven. #performanceart #ddv #performan #aiart
Performance art - 17 September 1983 - This time I lay upside down in the grave with a chain attached to my feet. I was pulled out of the grave while films and slides about Robert Oppenheimer and death were projected onto me. In a microphone I repeated: “Now I am death the destroyer of worlds”. The sound of my voice was electronically distorted into an unearthly grinding and thundering by Paul Hurst. #performanceart #ddv #performan #aiart
Performance art - 17 September 1983 - On the Campo Santo graveyard I dug a grave. After I lay down in it Ross Cannon closed it with earth. While the audience was transported with buses to the next location of the exhibition we moved the grave to the Gele Zaal in Gent. #performanceart #ddv #performan #aiart
Performance art - 20 June 1983 - I was sitting backwards in the chair of the hairdressing salon of ProduKtion-HAIR handcuffed. While Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven’s Super8 film ‘19 Keys vs. 39 Steps’ was projected I recited the 19 Keys in Enochian with my head bent over in the sink. #performanceart #ddv #performan #aiart
Performance art - 10 June 1983 - Standing on a tree stump I read confessions from multiple murderer and cannibal Karl Friedrich Großmann, then I poured blood over my head and let it run down over my body onto the tree stump. #performanceart #ddv #performan #aiart #carlgrossmann
