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Categories: Film | Television
Keywords: Montage
Relevant passages:
Dieter Daniels «Television-Art or anti-art?
Conflict and cooperation between the avant-garde and the mass media in the 1960s and 1970s»
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 Fluxus Train Early Works with TV Grasshoppers Morning Glory Nein – 9 Decollagen Oscillograph on Beethoven Oscillographs (sketch) Starfighter Television Décollage TV Burying TV for Millions TV Dé-coll/age for Millions TV-Décoll/age no. 1 YOU
Wolf Vostell
«Sun in Your Head»
Vostell's large-scale happening '9 Nein Décollagen' ('9 No – Dé-coll/ages) took place on 14 September 1963 in nine different locations in Wuppertal, and was organized by the Galerie Parnass. The audience was ferried by bus from location to location, including a cinema that screened 'Sun in your head' while people lay on the floor. The film transfers to the moving image Vostell’s principle of ‘Décollage’. While up to then Vostell had altered TV pictures as they were being broadcast, he was now able to compose the temporal sequence. Since no video equipment was available in 1963, Vostell instructed camera-man Edo Jansen to film distorted TV images off the TV screen. The film was re-edited and copied to video in 1967.
Made for Vostell’s '9 Nein Dé-coll/agen' (9 'No Dé-coll/ages') happening, the film was subsequently shown in a separate context, for instance in Amsterdam in 1964.
