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30 Seconds Text (1996) explores the period of neural reaction of the human brain immediately after death. In the installation, a sheet of white text on a black background is illuminated by a single light bulb suspended nearby. The text is a first-person account of the results of a test carried out by a French doctor on a guillotined head. The bulb is extinguished after 30 seconds, the length of time that the physician says he elicited reactions from the head.
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https://www.moma.org/documents/moma_press-release_387108.pdf (22.09.2022)