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  • Introduction
  • Contemporary Works
  • Historical Works
  • Selected Projects
    • Tauba Auerbach
    • Paulina Olowska
    • Nora Schultz
  • Dial-a-Poem
  • Sound Works
    • Henri Chopin
    • Paul Elliman
    • Karl Holmqvist
    • Kurt Schwitters
  • Other Resources
    • Exhibition Checklist
    • Events
    • Further Reading
  • Publication
    • This Language Is Ecstatic Because
    • Exhibition Catalogue Trailer
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    • The Serving Library
  • Exhibition Views
  • Credits
MoMA

A collaboration between Schultz and her friend Ei Arakawa (whose work with Nikolas Gambaroff, Two-Alphabet Monograms, is also included in this exhibition), these 11 photographs show Arakawa bending a thin piece of sheet metal into a sequential series of numbers, beginning with 10 and ending with zero. A physical, three-dimensional equivalent of the process of speech, Countdown presents a complex concept in a visceral way.

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Countdown Performance – 1
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Nora Schultz. Countdown Performance. 2007

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Countdown Performance – 3
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Nora Schultz. Countdown Performance. 2007

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Countdown Performance – 4
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Nora Schultz. Countdown Performance. 2007

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Countdown Performance – 5
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Nora Schultz. Countdown Performance. 2007

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Countdown Performance – 6
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Nora Schultz. Countdown Performance. 2007

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Countdown Performance – 7
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Nora Schultz. Countdown Performance. 2007

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Countdown Performance – 8
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Nora Schultz. Countdown Performance. 2007

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Countdown Performance – 9
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Nora Schultz. Countdown Performance. 2007

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Countdown Performance 10
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Nora Schultz. Countdown Performance. 2007

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Countdown Performance – 0
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Nora Schultz. Countdown Performance. 2007

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