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Wolf Vostell (1932-1998)

De/Collage LP [Fluxus] Multhipla, Italy, 1980

1. Radio de Collage

2. De Collage Manifesto

3. Sun in Your Head

4. El Aeroputero

5. Raum

6. Telemetre

7. MIM

8. Hodispannung

9. Fandango

10. Heuwagen

11. Giavanna La Pazza

12. San Diego Freeway

13. Garden of Delices

Various Tracks

Wolf Vostell, "Elektronischer de-coll.age. Happening raum," 1968 (3:00)

(from Fluxus Anthology)

Le Cri / The Cry (1990)

music sculpture, concert recorded at Gallerie Lavinnes, Bastille, Paris, France.

The Cry
Fluxus Concert

...60 Minutes
with
2 string quartets
4 lumberjacks
some zambombas
20 TVs
5 sopranos
30 chorists
30 hoovers
Trombones oboes
an automobile accident
400 spectators
10 partitions
"Furnishing Music" (Satie) where we break up the furniture
A sculpture/Happening an envorpnment/collage
The Pleyel room at the bottom of a lake (superrimbaud)
the listener is in the picture

"I havn't yet noted what is the most critical, I'm still
sinking fast.The work awaiting me is enormous."
Kafka's Jounal, quoted by Elias Canetti
- Canetti's quotes are all from
Das Gewissen der Worte (the awareness of words)

6 pretexts for W.V. by raphael Sorin, 17 july 1990.

(from Fluxus Anthology, 30th Anniversary Box)

Wolf Vostell b 1932 in Leverkusen (D), d 1998 Berlin (D); 1950–53 trained as a photo-lithographer; 1954 studied free painting at and experimental typogarphy at the Werkkunstschule Wuppertal; 1955–56 studied at the École National Supérieur des Beaux-Arts, Paris (F); 1957 studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf; 1958 first happenings; early 1960s, co-founder of the Fluxus movement and produced intermedia actions and installations; 1963 first films and extension of the Dé-collage actions into the electronic sphere. Since the early 1960s, Vostell uses a variety of media and materials in his happenings, actions, and installations without being a media artist in the strict sense. His relation to media is above all a political concern. His concept of Dé-collage differs from ‹collage› in that it stresses the aggressive, destructive aspect of found structures and visuals. From 1963 on, he uses television sets in his intermedia art, and publishes seven numbers of the magazine »Dé-coll/age – Bulletin aktueller Ideen« (a bulletin of current ideas) from 1962 to 1967, an important forum for Intermedia art in that time.

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