Article: A thousand words: Santiago Sierra.(Interview)

TALKS ABOUT HIS WORK

The curator at Kunst-Werke, or KW, Berlin, Klaus Biesenbach, asked to show Lifted Out Wall Leaning Over by 60 Degrees and Held Up by 5 People in the summer of 2000. We discussed how the performance, which deconstructs the gallery and dissects the space, vaguely recalls the work of Gordon Matta-Clark or the physically hard, almost Sisyphean labors of Marina Abramovic and Ulay, who carried endless buckets of stones in a 1978 performance. But Lifted Out Wall takes the idea one step further, because the work is performed by paid employees.

The original production of Lifted Out Wall took place in Mexico City. At that time, I had worked ...

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