Reading Viennese Actionism

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , on 6 September 2012 by delclem

 



No Austrian art movement of the 20th century has created such a stir as the so-called Viennese Actionism. Legal action was taken against the transgressive artists because of their body-oriented performances for indecent behavior, violating morals and disturbing public peace. They were vilified in the press and received public threats: legendary vents that have made (art) history > book review

Photo: the legendary “Art & Revolution” performance @ NIG, Auditorium I (University of Vienna), 7 June 1968
(c) wieninternational.at 2012

 

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In the footsteps of Josefine Mutzenbacher

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , , , , on 5 September 2012 by delclem

 
“What does ‘Bambi’ have to do with a Viennese prostitute of the 19th century? What is the ‘cushion method’ or even a ‘porcelain ride’? These and similar questions are answered in the guided walk ‘Josefine Mutzenbacher – the paths of desire in Old Vienna’. Curious?”

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“Welt.All.Ende” – Walla!

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , on 1 September 2012 by delclem

 

“The Art/Brut Center Gugging near Vienna has put together an amazing AUGUST WALLA (1936-2001) retrospective of more than 400 works from all periods of his artistic life. Together with his impressing paintings and drawings the show contains not only sculptures and installations, but also photographies and documentations of land art pieces.” Out of his own confused gender identity, the historical disasters of the (post)war period and social marginalization, Walla created his own universe (which is going to ‘end’ according to him) populated by gods and sexual-politcial symbols: the swastika e.g. symbolizes the female sex, whereas  communism is ‘male’. Until Oct 28, 2012. Video (c) theartVIEw on Vimeo.

 

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Nazi merchandising?

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , , , , on 31 August 2012 by delclem

“A MEN’S clothes store in India is being asked to change its name after the chosen ‘Hitler’ upsets the local community.”

Summer canard, naïveté or evil business – taking the vile merchandising & ‘branding’ of Nazi history a step further…?

And what is the Gandhi-Tshirt suupposed to mean?

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Anti-Semitic cartoon posted by HC Strache

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , on 28 August 2012 by delclem

“An Austrian politician has caused a furious backlash after he posted a grotesque cartoon on his Facebook page, showing a banker with a hooked nose and Star of David cufflinks.” >full text (c) HUFFINGTON POST 2012

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Youth against Nazism

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , on 26 August 2012 by delclem

“A short account of the Schlurfs, working
class Austrian youth who rejected the
values of Nazism” (c) libcom.org 2012

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Kusturica’s Nationalist Disneyland

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , , , , on 23 August 2012 by delclem


 

“On 28 June, which is the anniversary of the battle of Kosovo, the Bosnian Serb film maker was going to inaugurate Andrićgrad: a town (theme park?) built to celebrate the work of writer Ivo Andrić. Belgrade journalist Boško Jakšić dénonces a project, which he claims is intent on instrumentalising history and memory for nationalist ends.” Full text (c) presseurop.eu 2012

Another text (c) THE GUARDIAN, 2012

 

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Peter Sloterdijk’s “Bubbles”

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , on 21 August 2012 by delclem

 

“Bubbles is the first volume of Peter Sloterdijk‘s hugely ambitious and suggestive trilogy Spheres (1998-2004) to appear in English. Here he attempts nothing less than a metaphysical history of enclosed spaces, utopian or practical pods and domes, real and fantastical atmospheres or ecosystems.” Review (c) THE GUARDIAN 2012

Illustration: carpet by Margret Eicher Sloterdijk facing the Holy Inquisition of Trivial Taste

 

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Free Pussy Riot !

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , on 20 August 2012 by delclem

 

The True Blasphemy: a statement by the Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek on the Pussy Riot trial (c) DANGEROUSMINDS.NET 2012
>Another text by the Nobel laureate Elfriede Jelinek (in German)

 

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Underground with Mozart & Co.

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , on 15 August 2012 by delclem

 

 


“A new tourist attraction takes visitors underground where they can listen to Mozart, experience a model air raid shelter or run with the rats.” > Review
(c) wieninternational.at 2012

 

 

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