John Bock

Born in 1965 in Itzehoe (Germany), he lives in Germany. 

John Bock derives his language from action. In the early 1990s, he started out giving lectures on art and economics. His discourse on life, in the Dadaist manner, tends toward absurdity and confusion, casting doubt on the authority of scientific language and rational thought's claim to wield a monopoly on truth. His lectures, accompanied by diagrams and a wide-ranging array of objects, subsequently turned into fully-fledged performances. Their increasingly elaborate props and sets turned installations, and recordings of them have become videos.

Since 2003, film has played an increasingly prominent role in John Bock's work. Either on his own or with actors, the artist appears in presentations whose unbridled whimsy verges on and overlaps with the burlesque. In these mises-en-scènehe has developed what Harald Szeeman, who presented Bock's work at the 1999 Venice Biennale, called a "personal mythology". In le Printemps de septembre programme, John Bock exhibits his work in the Espace EDF-Bazacle.