In the center of the gallery space is an installation. Stretched athwart a wooden panel lying on the floor, four ties form a cross and somewhat of a stage for one of Bock’s lectures about parapsychology, pleasure and death. Here, too, the artist places equal emphasis on word and image. Complemented by a plexiglass panel on which objects and Bock’s coinages are connected diagrammatically to tripod-mounted boards by red threads, the installation becomes a collage of superimposition and compression.

Visitors move between the different stages that establish a dialogic relationship with one another. The exhibition Ex-Ego-Gynt showcases John Bock’s unremitting expansion of the concept of art that keeps on recontextualizing the processual, ever- changing artwork and continues creating new networks. What emerges is a cohesive universe marked by an interest in madness, the uncanny, and the human psyche, but also by humor and exuberance, which constantly realigns the framework of its own perception.