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Categories: Action
Keywords: Distribution | Geography
Works by Wolf Vostell:
Automatic Answering Machine
Concrete TV Paris German View from the Black Room Cycle The Consequences of the Emergency Laws Do it yourself Dé-collage Electronic Dé-coll/age, Happening Room Project for a Drive-in Museum Early Works with TV Grasshoppers Morning Glory Nein – 9 Decollagen Oscillograph on Beethoven Oscillographs (sketch) Starfighter Sun in Your Head Television Décollage TV Burying TV for Millions TV Dé-coll/age for Millions TV-Décoll/age no. 1 YOU
Wolf Vostell
«Fluxus Train»
The Vostell Mobile Museum
An Art Train of 7 Environments on Love, Death, and Work
The vital industrial and cultural landscape of North Rhine-Westphalia, with its heterogeneous population, is my dialog partner for this project.
My interest is in composing for a train objects and pictures that could not otherwise be shown together in this connection in a museum. The train consists of 9 containers, designed and executed by myself as 7 environments. The train runs from city to city and can thus be integrated in the respective individual art and culture scenes during its stay. The arrival is marked by a premiere celebration and a press conference. The train is conceived as a living 'art school', where people can exchange their experiences with the artist and contribute their own reflections. In content and form, my artistic themes connected with the train are the world of work and its materials – human alienation –, but also happiness and play. The train is dedicated to the Fluxus group. An opening of the traditional museum, my mobile cultural work.
Wolf Vostell
Between May 1 and Sept. 29, 1981, the 'Fluxus Train' travels as a mobile museum through 16 train stations in cities in North Rhine-Westphalia, with a different accompanying program each time. The train contains 7 environments on love, death, and work.
