Art and Culture
Italy
Biennale of Venice, John Bock
by Marco
The last 21 October we went to the ‘Biennale’ of
Venice and we saw a lot of very intresting thing .
It was an awesome school-trip, very intresting
and very suggestive. Expecially we’ve appreciate
the works of John Bock.
John Bock (born 1965 in Schenefeld, Germany)
is a German artist. He studied in Hamburg,
Germany and lives and works in Berlin.
Work
Bock is a multi-media artist primarily known for his performances. Since 1991, he
creates environments hand crafted from found materials which function as symbolic
settings for his “lectures.” More recently there has been an increased production of film
and video work.
In his “lectures”, Bock acts on “stages” built from tables, cupboards or multi-level wood
constructions. The objects are handmade or re-modeled accessories of the lecture,
made out of clothing, electrical equipment such as hoovers and mixers, or “plastic
diagrams” that illustrate his mathematical explanations. After the lecture, they are left
on the stage which thus forms a “theatrical collage”. The “lectures” are structured by
different scenes in which Bock sometimes works with (non-professional) actors;
frequently he plays pop songs or classical pieces from a record player. The lecture is
mostly recorded on video. The film is then integrated in the installation, documenting
the lecture throughout the exhibition.
Bock has been professor for sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts of Karlsruhe since
2004.
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