Club Moral 052 - Now I am Death [part 2/2]

"Now I Am Death" is a Super8 movie by DDV. Originally titled "Now I Am Death, the Destroyer of the World", it was originally made for an exhibition "Young Artists from Antwerpen in Gent" in 1983. The exhibition was spread over three venues: the Campo Santo cemetary in Sint-Amandsberg, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens in Deurle and De Gele Zaal in Gent. ### ### ### While the people were walking around on the opening of the exhibition on the Campo Santo cemetary, I was digging a grave underneath a tree. When it was finished I lay down and the grave was covered with earth and finished with chains and a cross by Ross Cannon of ProduKtion. I stayed buried for about 45 minutes until everybody had to leave to go to the second part of the exhibition by a special bus. While everybody was on the other location, I transported the grave to the third and final location of the exhibition. There the grave was reconstructed, me laying upside down in it, with a chain attached to my feet. As the people came in, main lights were turned off and the film and a slide-series were started. Then I was pulled out by my feet out of the grave by use of a pulley by Paul Hurst of ProduKtion. My body was hanging in front of the projectors, images projected onto human body. In a microphone I repeated the words ""Now I Am Death, the Destroyer of the World". The sound went into a synthesizer, treated by Paul Hurst, distorting the words in loud hellish sound-bursts. (description of performance by DDV ...

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