Peter Weibel

I watched Peter Weibel's 1967 video Tramping on the Law with Feet. The camera is pointed at the pavement, and on the ground is the word Recht written in white sidewalk chalk. It was written multiple times overlapping scribbled and in all kinds of ways and directions. 

     Weibel video taped people walking across the area with Recht written on it. The only part you can see of the people is from the knee area down.  But you can somewhat judge what type of people they were from what they were wearing, which also makes you consider the type of area it may have been done. For example there was a couple people with dress shoes and brief cases, so they were probably professionals, and they may have been traveling to or from the office. But then there was a couple people also wearing casual shoes and pants, which leads me to think it was a public area not only open to business professionals, maybe a walk way by a train or bus.

     you could also pick up people reaction from the speed the were walking. Some people slowed down as if they were trying to read it and didn't have time to stop, while others barely stopped as if they had seen it before. There was a couple people that stopped but not for a long period of time.

    The element of performance could be the act of Weibel actually taking the time to write all over the sidewalk, and how his actions were perceived by on lookers. Also how the passer beyers reacted to being filmed on camera. What about after he finished filming did the word just stay there, or was it washed away and did he get in trouble for putting graffiti in the public space.