Run-through of an Action 1966

Editor: Here we have Günter Brus's *Run-through of an Action* from an unknown date. It looks to be mixed media on paper. It feels very procedural, like a set of instructions. What do you see in this work? Curator: The semiotic structure is immediately apparent. Brus utilizes language as a primary material, organizing these sheets into a sequence. Consider the distribution of text, its density and rhythm across the four panels. Editor: So, it's more about the arrangement of the text than what the text says? Curator: Precisely! How does the visual weight of the script create a compositional tension, a kind of performative typography? Editor: It’s like the text itself is the action he’s referring to. It gives a whole new meaning to “concrete poetry”. Curator: Indeed, the materiality of language becomes the event.