BODYBUILDING Production: Austria, 1965 Director: Ernst Schmidt Jr. Category: Performance Art A 9-minute film-capture of one of the seminal 1960s performance-art pieces by Vienna Aktionist Otto Muehl. Using both colour and sound, Schmidt adds solarization effects to match the intensity of Muehl’s Materialaktion, which included mummification by bandages and daubing Continue Reading
Vienna Aktion Group
SS UND JUDENSTERN
SS UND JUDENSTERN “SS And Star Of David” Production: Austria, 1971 Director: Günter Orban Category: Performance Art This 7-minute Vienna performance aktion, originally commissioned by German TV, is one of a series of extreme filmed provocations perpetrated by Otto Muehl and Kurt Kren of the Vienna Aktion Group in the late Continue Reading