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Categories: Action
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 Sun in Your Head Television Décollage TV for Millions TV Dé-coll/age for Millions TV-Décoll/age no. 1 YOU
Wolf Vostell
«TV Burying»
Held on a farm in South Brunswick, New Jersey, the 'YAM Festival' was venue on 19 May 1963 to actions and happenings by artists including Dick Higgins, Allan Kaprow, La Monte Young, and Vostell with his 'TV Burial'. In compliance with Vostell’s score, a TV set showing the current programme was pelted with matter such as cream cakes, and decorated with turkey steaks, these interventions bringing about a 'Décollage' of the programme being shown. Following this, a panel painting with a hole in the canvas was hung in front of the TV set, meaning only a small area of the TV screen remained visible. The TV was then crowned with barbed-wire before being buried in a grave previously dug for it. The associations evoked range from the slapstick of the custard-pie fight to religious representations of crucifixion and entombment.
