Eating a Koran,
Eating a Torah and
Eating a Bible were first presented in October 2012 in the exhibition space of
The College of Performing Arts, part of the University of the Arts in Berlin. Azcona inaugurated a series of works of a performative nature with the critical content of religious entities. In the works, Azcona used representative icons of various religions, such as the Koran, the
Bible, the
Torah and other objects of a sacred character. In the most
controversial of them, Azcona performs for nine-hour during which he ingests the pages of a copy of the Koran, the
Torah and the
Bible. This work provoked the most repercussions of any of the series, and the artist was threatened and persecuted for the piece. The work was performed again in the
Krudttønden,
Copenhagen. From there, Azcona founded an art collection together with other artists such as
Lars Vilks and
Bjørn Nørgaard, who had been persecuted and threatened for their creations. With the collective, including Vilks, Nørgaard, the writer
Salman Rushdie and the cartoonist
Charb (who was killed in the attack on
Charlie Hebdo), Azcona carried out performances and conferences for
freedom of speech in the Krudttønden between 2013 and 2015. In 2015 the Krudttønden building was
attacked by terrorists during a conference. Subsequently, the work
Eating a Koran, was bought by a Danish collector and donated to the Krudttønden for the permanent exhibition. == Bibliography ==