The images is a record of Appelt's performances, the best known documented by "Liberation of the Fingers." In the attempt to purge himself of wartime childhood memories of decaying bodies, Appelt set out to become one himself: he whitened his body with marble dust and wrapped his hands and legs in linen, as if preparing for burial. The artist was not only burying himself alive, as it were, but resurrecting himself, that is, functioning as his own Christ--or shaman, in the tradition of his contemporary Joseph Beuys.
Book: Dieter Appelt, The Art Institute of Chicago
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