Everything Flows ..., book, 218 x 132 x 44 mm, video, 2009
Paul Celan’s collected poems, a reader erases all the punctuation marks in the book, noises off. The work is a sequel to A Day’s Work and takes a cue from a prose fragment by Celan: ‘"Alles fließt"; auch dieser Gedanke, und bringt er nicht alles wieder zum stehen?’ ("Everything flows"; this thought also, doesn't that bring everything back to a stop?). Read, erased and recorded in the reading room of the Wiener Library Institute of Contemporary History, London
reading: Lisa Schmidt