Otto Muhl

[Ruth Flatscher]

Mühl just died this spring; there was an article in the newspaper "der
Standard", for those among you who read German:
http://derstandard.at/1369361719976/Aktionskuenstler-Otto-Muehl-87-jaehrig-gestorben
and an another one in "profil" largely based on the film and Robert's
experiences:
http://www.profil.at/articles/1315/560/356536/otto-muehl-otto-muehl-diktatur-befreiung
best,
Ruth


On 11 August 2013 08:06, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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*.)
>



-- 
Mag. Ruth Flatscher
Department of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, University of Vienna
Institute of Botany, University of Innsbruck
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