DER JASAGER | ALEX VILLAR

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Based on a play by Bertolt Brecht, and likewise, this piece takes the school as the site of questioning. The focus of the story is a short dialogue that takes place between a teacher and his students at the crucial moment when a question of life and death is asked. There is a critical problem with the posing of the question as it provides a framework that ultimately determines the answer. Through a series of performative displacements of the expected relation between the body and supporting furniture, the stakes of each character are literalized, expoising the discursive apparatus that frames the discussion.


Der Jasager (excerpt), 11 minutes, sound, DVD video, 1997-02
Der Jasager (chair), 36 x 48 C-print mounted on aluminum, 2002
Der Jasager (table a), 36 x 48 C-print mounted on aluminum, 2002
Der Jasager (table b), 36 x 48 C-print mounted on aluminum, 2002
Der Jasager (table c), 36 x 48 C-print mounted on aluminum, 2002