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ULTRABIZARRE AND INFAMOUS
EXTREMIST PERFORMANCE ART
VERY GOOD pic/sound quality!

01. KARDINAL
02. MICHELANGELO
03. PSYCHO-MOTORISCHE geräuschaktion (Müehl)
04. WEHRERTÜCHTIGUNG
05. TITLE UNKNOWN
06. SODOMA (Muehl)
07. SATISFACTION (Müehl, Schwarzkogler, Brus)
08. LIBI 68 (Müehl)
09. AMORE 68 (Müehl)
10. OH SENSIBILITY (Müehl)
11. SCHEISS-KERL (Müehl, Kren, Koeck)
12. 6/64 MAMA UND PAPA (Kren)
13. 7/64 LEDA MIT DEM SCHWAN (Kren)
14. 9/64 O TANNENBAUM (Kren)
15. COSINUS ALPHA (Kren)
16. MANOPSYCHOTIEK (Sieger, Muehl) with Romila Doll, Mica Must

TAPE TWO

01. OTMAR BAUER ZEIGT (Bauer)
02. IMPUDENZ IM GRUNEWALD 69 (Brus) Teil 1, Teil 2, Teil 3
03. 16/67 20. SEPTEMBER (Kren, Brus)
04. TITLE UNKNOWN
05. TITLE UNKNOWN
06. INVESTMENT (Müehl)
07. PSYCHOTIEK-PARTY (Müehl, w.M.Most, R. Doll)
08. STILLE NACHT (H.P. Kochenrath) .O. Müehl at Germany 1970
09. performance G.BRUS: ZERREISSPROBE
10. JUNI 1970 AKTIONSRAUM 1 München

ANOTHER DESCRIPTION OF THE COLLECTION

THE VIENNA ACTIONISTS COLLECTION 1964-1970 [B+]
A must have compilation of outrageous shorts (most previously unavailable)
from the infamous avant garde art gang: Otto Muehl, Gunter Brus, Kurt Kren,
Rudolf Schwarzkogler & Otmar Bauer. With full color and sharp picture, the
image quality here is FAR superior to other crudely "shot on screen" compilations.
Includes Sodoma, Mama And Papa, Oh Sensibility, Leda Und Der Schwann,
O Tannenbaum (plus Stille Nacht an alternate documentation of this holiday
horrorshow), Cosinus Alpha, Scheiss-Kerl [Shit-Ass], Impudence In Grunwald,
Psychotik-Party, and the notorious Otmar Bauer Presents. XXX rated.

In the early 1960s, four Viennese artists, Hermann Nitsch,
Otto Muehl, Gunter Brus and Rudolph Schwarzkogler,
despondent over the reactionary state of modern painting,
spontaneously crashed through the two dimensional canvas
and into Aktionism. With their libidos as guides, they violently
attacked petty materialism and gloried in direct sensual exper-
ience through carefully scored and executed performance art.

Film and video makers Kurt Kren, Ernst Schmidt, Jr., Stephen Gebhardt,
Kim Tomczak and Thomas Draschan were drawn into the melee of Aktionism.
Their works did more than record the chaotic energy of Aktionists‚ rituals
and orgies, they reinterpreted it through their stringent editing structures.
This program of film and video focuses on the filmmakers‚
their art, and its contribution to the Vienna Aktionist’s legacy.

“Through my artistic production (a form of life worship)
I take upon myself all that appears negative, unsavoury,
perverse and obscene, the lust and the resulting sacrificial
hysteria, in order to spare YOU the defilement and
shame entailed by the descent into the extreme.”
Hermann Nitsch, 1962

“I set my sights on the human body and realized things
were moving at last, during my first material action,
I soiled a female body with mud, paint, rubbish and paste,
and tied it up in old rags and ropes dipped in mud.”
Otto Muehl, 1963

“This ended one day in a dance excess that I celebrated on a
marble-topped cafe table. As I was about to herald the grand finale
with a few hefty stomps, the marble top shattered...it was at
the very least the chain of association — marble plate-marble
cake-mummy cake-tummy cooking = shit — that made me
drop my trousers and force out my bladder and belly refuse.”
Gunter Brus, 1967

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