Otto Muhl

[rich]

hard not to read on after the first paragraph

http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2013/aug/07/tyrant-commune/

Paul-Julien Robert is an angry young man. And he has every right to be.
Robert was born in 1979 to a young Swiss woman living in Friedrichshof, a
famous, and later infamous, Austrian commune that was once the largest in
Europe. Like so many utopian communities founded over the past two
centuries on the principle of participatory democracy, this one was the
brainchild of an individual visionary. He was Otto Mühl, a former Wehrmacht
soldier who in the Sixties helped found the Actionist art movement in
Vienna and who gained notoriety for his scoptophilic “performances” that
involved naked people rolling around in paint and mud and feces groping
each other, and often ended with Mühl either defecating on someone or
urinating in a performer’s mouth. (YouTube will introduce you to his *chefs
d’oeuvre*.)
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