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Satan is real
Performance. 2 hours.
Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens,
Ghent, Belgium. 2004

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Satan is real
Performance. 2 hours.
Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens,
Ghent, Belgium, 2004

The artist steps in to a garden armed with a guitar. His assistant awaits by a small hole in the ground. The artist goes down in the hole. The assistants fills the hole up to the artists waist, who then starts singing a bluesy tune in a loop. The lyrics: "Satan is real. He's working for me."

 

 


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