Marina Abromavic performing joseph beuys explaining pictures to a rabbit
Joseph Beuys's 'How to Explain Pictures to a dead hare'-- as it has been reperformed in art as a kernel of conceptual practice-- is a metaphor for JSON as applied here:
>For me the Hare is a symbol of incarnation, which the hare really enacts- something a human can only do in imagination. It burrows, building itself a home in the earth. Thus it incarnates itself in the earth: that alone is important. So it seems to me. Honey on my head of course has to do with thought. While humans do not have the ability to produce honey, they do have the ability to think, to produce ideas. Therefore the stale and morbid nature of thought is once again made living. Honey is an undoubtedly living substance- human thoughts can also become alive. On the other hand intellectualizing can be deadly to thought: one can talk one's mind to death in politics or in academia.
YOUTUBE KZTE9MDoaLs Kill the Wabbit 1957, WaterTower Records.
