John Bock’s lectures and performances are essentially stories told from a patchwork of derailed thoughts and endless digressions. Bock’s video, Gast (2004), subverts the personal mythology of Joseph Beuys by restaging his now legendary attempts to teach art to a dead hare. But, in Bock’s world, there is no trace of Beuys’ heroism or emphatic rhetoric. His hare is alive and happy, running around a living room transformed into a universe of minuscule sculptures and intricate structures. Following a format similar to his lectures, this constructed environment expands beyond its physical limits to emerge as a surreal landscape where micro and macro dimensions collide. Gast is accompanied by the shamanistic performance of the piano player, Bara, whose improvised electronic soundtrack is interwoven in accordance with the underlying structure of the video.