Jiří Zemánek: The Imagination of the Earth as a Body

Charles Simonds, Age 1983 / Guggenheim Museum, New York

This text was originally written for the anthology Živel ZEMĚ (Agentura Koniklec, Prague 2004, pp. 222-227); however, it was first published in the magazine Ateliér (21 / 24.10. 2002, p. 16) and subsequently published in a German translation under the title “Die Erde als Körper” in the German magazine Hagia Chora (5 Jahrgang / 15 / 2003, pp. 82-85). “Her heart beats in the highest heaven,…