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& stand on it until it is understood, then move away

& stand on it until it is understood, then move away
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    • & stand on it until it is understood, then move away
  • 1978
  • fine liner on copied sonogram
  • 21,5 × 35,5 cm
An important body of work is represented by Georg Decistel’s “sonograms,” sheets of A4 paper of a fragmentary nature onto which he transcribed the sounds of the Jew’s harp as line-like structures—not notation, but graphic “visualizations,” as he called them—of sound. The sonograms were conceived as Xerox copies, large numbers of which were placed on the floor of the exhibition space to form a carpet of sorts for the audience; in this way, they themselves became part of the performance. S.E.