Originally a painter and sculptor, Terry Fox (*1943 in Seattle / USA, †2008 in Cologne) became an important representative of the performance scene and the Conceptual art movement in the United States at the end of the 1960s. His work examined elementary expressions of human existence – for example, the body and its behavior towards its immediate environment. In his videos, which he began to produce in the 1970s, he has also focused on simple sequences of action and conscious experiences with everyday things.