NITSCH 5 sinfonie 2xK7 1980 200ex avant fluxus experimental muehl dieter roth

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Hermann Nitsch "5. Sinfonie" 2xK7 tape privately issued by Dieter Roth for his Dieter Roth Verlag (no catalogue number) in Germany, 1980. Edition limited to 200 copies. ****** 2xTape:ex / Cov:ex ****** Dieter Roth Verlag original edition of Hermann Nitsch "5 sinfonie" on 2 cassette tapes. Top rare audio art multiple with Nitsch recordings not available elsewhere! This recording of Nitsch’s 5th Symphony was made in Basel on October 23rd, 1980. The music was performed by Sinfonieorchester Island and is basically a long Organ drone with episodic blasts of orchestral solipsism and concrete uncontrolled chaos. In the 1970s, Hermann Nitsch used to make music with the free improvisation group Selten Gehörte Musik, a collective of Berlin artists including Günter Brus, Oswald Wiener or Dieter Roth. This group included some Austrian expats (with Arnulf Rainer sometimes joining in) who had fled from the oppressive, ultra-conservative Austrian atmosphere and found a haven for their creativity in the cosmopolitan German capital. Nitsch didn’t actually emigrate to Berlin, yet he was sentenced several times in his home country for his offensive 1960s Aktions. While most Austrian artists have a strong love-hate relationship with their country, Nitsch is a somewhat different case since he came to mythologize his heimat with pagan concepts bypassing contemporary Austria’s ignoble compromises. Born in Vienna, Nitsch received training in painting during the time he studied at the Wiener Graphische Lehr-und Versuchanstalt. He is called an "actionist" or a performance artist. He is associated with the Vienna Actionists, and like them conceived his art outside traditional categories of genre. Nitsch's abstract splatter paintings, like his performance pieces, established a theme of controlled violence, using bright reds, maroons, and pale greys that communicate organic mutilation. In the 1950s, Nitsch conceived of the Orgien Mysterien Theater (which roughly translates as "Theatre of Orgies and Mysteries" or "The Orgiastic Mystery Theater"), staging nearly 100 performances between 1962 and 1998. Nitsch's work, which can be considered both ritualistic and existential, first drew attention in the early 1960s when he exhibited a skinned and mutilated lamb. The lamb was crucified against a white fabric-covered wall, with the entrails removed and displayed below a white table, splashed with blood and hot water. This was accompanied by Nitsch's "Geräuschmusik". Nitsch's subsequent work has incorporated many similar elements, often combining slaughtered animals, red fruits, music, dancing, and active participants. Nitsch juxtaposed slaughtered animal intestines with quasi-religious icons such as staged crucifixions, satirizing and questioning the moral ethics of atavistic religion and sacrifice. Currently his work is often discussed in the context of our culture's fixation with violence seen on the news, movie screens, and in popular video games. Correlations have also been drawn to many instances of the intersection of violence and culture. These performance works, which have become known as "actions" have become more and more elaborate over the years. This highly elaborate work is exemplified by the 6-Day Play, which Nitsch considered to be his pinnacle piece. ****** Original edition with corrections glued on the printed sleeve (see photo). ****** Please wait to receive my invoice before sending the payment after the auction ends. Attention! Real postage costs are not USD 4 as all the items are located in Doha, Qatar (which has a very safe and professional post system). Postage costs registered up to 1 Kilo (generally 3 LPs): to Europe and Japan is USD 13,00 / to America and Oceania is USD 17,00. Postage costs registered up to 2 Kilos: to Europe and Japan is USD 28,00 / to America and Oceania is USD 34,00. ****** More ebay auctions of ultra rare sonic arts, fluxus, sound poetry LP and K7 editions in the coming week. ****** Thank you for your kind attention and good luck with your bids.