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Categories: Action | Television
Keywords: Aggression
Relevant passages:
Rudolf Frieling «Reality/Mediality
Hybrid Processes Between Art and Life»
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 Burying TV for Millions TV Dé-coll/age for Millions TV-Décoll/age no. 1
Paik, Nam June; Yalkut, Jud »Video Commune: Beatles from beginning to end - An experiment for television« Wolf Vostell «Morning Glory» Joseph Beuys »Wahlplakat für die Grünen«
Wolf Vostell
«YOU»
The spectacular happening took place on 19 April 1964 in Great Neack, Long Island, on a plot of land owned by Bob und Rett Brown. The audience followed a labyrinthine route through a wooded area to arrive at a swimming pool and tennis court where 30 to 40 performers were involved in extreme situations, some wearing gas masks or throwing smoke bombs. One participant, Al Hansen, wrote: For me, a feeling of evil pervaded the entire piece - somethng ominous, as if I had been saked aout to a concentration camp to see people bullied, and went with the sneaking suspicion that they`d found out I was Jewish'
