 Wie der tote Hase dem toten Beuys den Menschen erklärt, 2004 In her video-work Wie der tote Hase dem toten Beuys den Menschen erklärt [How the dead Hare explains Human Beings to the dead Beuys] Dorcas Müller refers to the action Wie man dem toten Hasen die Bilder erklärt [How you explain Pictures to a dead Hare] (1965) by Josef Beuys. With a dead hare on his arm, he went through a Düsseldorf gallery from object to object, in order to explain these to the hare, and so makes it into a medium of understanding pictures and of intellectual catharsis. Dorcas Müller's video installation shows the animal as the object of performative-academic ordering-as-experiment: whilst the dead hare in the laboratory is shown a picture of Beuys, a neurochip on the animal's cornea registers the optical data and transforms them into a bar code. The hare's eye reacting reflexively becomes a nexus between life and death. Dorcas Müller, * 1973 in Reutlingen (D), lives and works in Karlsruhe (D)  Dorcas Müller, Wie der tote Hase dem toten Beuys den Menschen erklärt, 20043-channel video installation (colour, sound) 4:30 min., loop courtesy Dorcas Müller VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2008
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