Trampling on Rights

By stepping on the word “Recht” (literally “right,” also meaning “law” in German), visitors toan exhibition manifested the meaning of a German turn of phrase implying a trampling uponrights supposedly protected by the law. The work only first became realized via the pragmaticcommunicative aspect of the viewers’ bodily action upon the textual field, the bodily interactionbetween viewer and text. It is only with the participation of the public that the work was pro-duced. The visitors themselves executed the speech act and thereby discovered that justiceis nothing other than a system of speech acts, in essence of fictions (fictional realism).