
30 seconds text.
Douglas Gordon
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1998, Installation, Courtesy of the Artist and Gagosian Gallery, New York, Tang Museum, February 11 - September 10, 2006
1998, Installation, Courtesy of the Artist and Gagosian Gallery, New York, Tang Museum, February 11 - September 10, 2006
Douglas Gordon’s 30 seconds text. is based on a true story, recorded by a French physician in 1905. In as direct a manner as possible, it questions the essential nature of consciousness, asking what happens when the mechanism of the body no longer sustains the brain.

