Small lecture room, carpeted floor, small audience. The speaker uses a rostrum (which has an incorporated speaker), the lights are turned off to enable screen projection. The speaker reads her material and engages with the screen from time to time. I shall draw here about mentioned works, concepts, inventive words, and some random details.

partner in this reportage: Brigid Doherty, associate professor of German and Art and Archaeology at Princeton University

The lecturer, seconds before beginning:

 

On quoting:

 

Reference to “Untitled” 1992:

Nietzsche as the three wise monkeys:

 

 

The fisherman’s wife tale (sausage mustache):

 

 

Reference to “Replace me” postcards sold in museums:

Two gestures in the audience:

 

 

Projected image interlaced with the actual view:

 

 

Legdness and Handmadeness, with Brigid Doherty’s own handwritten corrections:

 

The moderator comes in at the end-

 

-and asks a question; while answering, the lecturer constantly turns towards her laptop:

 

 

At the very end, someone in the audience opens up the windows and takes a snapshot: