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Categories: Installation
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»
Rudolf Frieling «Reality/Mediality
Hybrid Processes Between Art and Life» Inke Arns «Social Technologies
Deconstruction, subversion, and the utopia of democratic communication»
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 Sun in Your Head TV Burying TV for Millions TV Dé-coll/age for Millions TV-Décoll/age no. 1 YOU
Wolf Vostell
«Television Décollage»
Vostell's first one-man show in New York in May 1963 was also the first public presentation of his TV works. The television pieces were exhibited together with other works soliciting spectator participation, as outlined in his concept paper: 'Environment: 6 TV sets with different programmes running / The picture is decollaged. & meltings / Pots with plastic toy airplanes melting due to heat. 6 grilled chickens on a canvas / Audience has to eat them off the picture. 6 chicken incubators / on canvas / the chickens to hatch on day of exhibition. Everyone receives an ampoule with liquid they can use to smear the magazines. Everything happens at once.'
In addition, one pack of grocieries is glued to each TV set.
