DUTCH CONCEPTUAL ARTIST, PERFORMANCE ARTIST, PHOTOGRAPHER AND FILMMAKER. ADER'S WORK WAS IN MANY INSTANCES PRESENTED AS PHOTOGRAPHS AND FILM OF HIS PERFORMANCES. HE ALSO MADE PERFORMATIVE INSTALLATIONS, INCLUDING PLEASE DON'T LEAVE ME (1969). ADER'S MOST POPULAR WORK IS HIS 1970 SHORT FILM PIECE, I'M TOO SAD TO TELL YOU, THAT CONSISTS OF THE ARTIST CRYING IN FRONT OF A CAMERA AFTER A BRIEF TITLE. ADER THUS CREATES IN MUCH OF HIS WORK AND PERFORMANCE A CONTRIVED THEATRICALITY THAT CREATES COMEDIC SPACE IN ITS META-AWARENESS.
DUTCH CONCEPTUAL ARTIST, PERFORMANCE ARTIST, PHOTOGRAPHER AND FILMMAKER. ADER'S WORK WAS IN MANY INSTANCES PRESENTED AS PHOTOGRAPHS AND FILM OF HIS PERFORMANCES. HE ALSO MADE PERFORMATIVE INSTALLATIONS, INCLUDING PLEASE DON'T LEAVE ME (1969). ADER'S MOST POPULAR WORK IS HIS 1970 SHORT FILM PIECE, I'M TOO SAD TO TELL YOU, THAT CONSISTS OF THE ARTIST CRYING IN FRONT OF A CAMERA AFTER A BRIEF TITLE. ADER THUS CREATES IN MUCH OF HIS WORK AND PERFORMANCE A CONTRIVED THEATRICALITY THAT CREATES COMEDIC SPACE IN ITS META-AWARENESS.
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