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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
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'
