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10.26

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Week 3

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Mama und Papa (materialaktion Otto Mühl)

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In 1964 the filmmaker Kurt Kern and Otto Mühl met each other in a café in Vienna. Mühl asked to shoot one of his actions. But Kern had some doubts because it would not be a ‘documentation’. And when Mühl saw the result it did not completely match with his expectations. Originally he would prefer a pure documentation and that was the reason that he later did his own filming. In Mama... read more

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Selbstverstümmelung

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In this surrealistic action a man is wrapped with white bandage and is surrounded by instruments like razors, scissors and scalpels. A symbolic self-destruction is the key of this action. In this filmed document Kurt Kern converts the gestures of this iconoclastic performance in long dramatic camera shots. Brus crawls on the floor, his body covered with flour and paste. The whole... read more

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