Reading Lecture:

Hegel: Lectures on the History of Philosophy, Volume One, Chinese Philosophy, I Ching.

• Page 106, first paragraph to line 7, then from line 18 to the end of the paragraph.

• Page 107, first paragraph, line 3 to the second paragraph of page 108.

• Page 110, first paragraph, line 10 to the end of the section. 

Academy Book Publishing House, Budapest 1958.

Action:

3 plastic foil tubes approximately 3 meters long, open at the ends. 6 volunteers, in pairs, hold one end of the tubes to their faces so that they can only breathe inside the tube.

The presenter uses this as a model to his lecture and cuts the tubes with scissors one by one, while explaining the relevant symbols of the I Ching for each cut.

The performance and the action are two independent motivated signs. They reproduce some conditions of perception in parallel, linguistically and visually, which do not derive their meaning from the thing depicted. The text of the performance can be considered a poem, the action about which the poem was written. (1976)