In Conversation: Hermann Nitsch. In The Phenomenology of Blood in Performance Art

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Abstract

Hermann Nitsch was born in 1938 in Vienna, Austria. He died during the production of this book in 2022. As a leading figure in art history, the co-editors would like to acknowledge their gratitude for the opportunity to work with Nistch. He was a historically important figure, a leader of Viennese Actionism, orchestrator of large scale aktions and happenings. An interdisciplinary practitioner, his artwork straddled performance, painting and musical composition. He was best known for what he described as the life-affirming festival of the Orgien Mysterien Theater. He considered these multiday artworks a celebration of life that confronted the anatomical inspection of our carnal corporeality, controversially represented by slaughtered animals, through the openings and evisceration of their bodies and the mixing of blood and sound with human action that invoked Dionysian spectacle.
Original languageEnglish
PublisherRoutledge, Taylor & Francis Group
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Publication statusIn preparation - 2025

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