F. E. 華特─示範 F. E. Walther 1972, 23:54mins

簡介/Synopsis

一條有30個口袋、約10公尺長的布料上。法蘭茲‧艾爾哈‧華特會往每一個口袋裡鑽進去幾秒鐘。一開始他手裡還拿著一個錶，後來就沒拿了。他已經可以自己拿捏使用藝術作品的時間長短。不過在一場跟觀眾的對談中，他說這只是一個「可能的使用框架」。
這部紀錄短片是在1972年7月第五屆文件大展上所拍攝的。華特當時展示的是他如今聞名全球的作品「第一項工具組」。他每兩週去一次卡塞爾，為觀眾示範使用這套工具。最後他還認為：「我所講解的還是遠遠不夠的」。但其實正好相反，他是言簡意駭，也許對當時而言是太前衛了。

Some ten metres long, the strip of cloth has 30 pockets in it. Franz Erhard Walther slips into each for a few seconds. At first, he has a watch in his hand, then hasn’t. The sense of time for using the artwork has established itself. But this only indicates “a possible framework for use”, as he afterwards explains in talking to the public.
The documentation was recorded at the documenta 5 in July 1972. At it Walter showed his “1. Werksatz” (1.Template), today world-renowned, and he came to Kassel every two weeks to demonstrate his work to visitors. “What I said was nowhere near sufficient”, he declared at the end. The contrary is actually the case; it was simple and clear, but perhaps too much before its time.