120th action

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The 120th action (“The 2-day game”) was a performance by the action artist Hermann Nitsch , staged on July 1st and 2nd, 2004 in his Prinzendorf Castle in Lower Austria . The action started at midnight on Saturday 1st July and ended with sunset on Sunday 2nd July.

Herman Nitsch staged this performance as a "stage consecration festival" and as a replacement for the performance of the opera Parsifal in the Vienna State Opera . For this he was initially promised the direction of the director , but was then withdrawn by "discharge".

At the "120. Action ”he staged the Parsifal theme as an orgy-mystery theater , a mixture he invented of concert, theater, performance, wine tasting, self-awareness course and painting action.

The action

A freshly slaughtered bull , five pigs and 600 liters of blood were used. a. as material for the representation of a kind of Grail tale : around 100 performers performed crucifixion , spear and ejection actions from Saturday midnight to a threatening soundscape of wind and string instruments .

Spread animal bodies were stuffed with intestines and innards and poured over with water, blood and mucus . Animal carcasses were tied to actors who were tied to crosses and blindfolded. Oversized spears were used to pierce the animal's bodies. Hermann Nitsch sees this drama as a “sacrifice for the blood guilt of existence” in order to demonstrate the Passion of Christ by eviscerating and crucifying dead animal bodies and pouring animal blood onto snow-white sheets to the sound of church bells .

The actors had rehearsed for a week before the spectacle.

This time Hermann Nitsch avoided protests by animal rights activists by avoiding animal slaughter in front of an audience from the outset (in contrast to the “6-day game” in 1998) .

People involved

Lajos Adamik, Arrabal Antuñes, Sabine Aichhorn , Bahar Naghibi, Katharina Biber , Mario Casans-Lutzu, Barrington de Laroche, Thibault Delferiere, Michael Dewitt, Margit Doubek, Thomas Draschan , Nikolaus Edinger, Jenny Feldmann, Jelena Filipovic, Hanns Franken, Wolfgang Fröschl , Dieter Gerschler, Monika Giller, Elisabeth Graf, Maria Graff, Christian Hönisch, Christoph Haas, Ingo Hartmann, Hanna Hollmann, Clemens Hollmann, Jens Hunger, Michael Hüttler, Barbara Jansenberger, Rainer Juranek, Oliver Kartak , Ingeborg Kessler, Leonhard Kopp, Marcel Korenhof, Josef Krupitza, Kalina Kupczynska, Dario Lindes, Juan Carlos Lozano, Martin Luce, Hubert Lugauer, Mirek Macke, Michael Magerat, Stefan Maier, Katharina Marak, Esther Merz, Hanno Millesi, Alexandra Mitsche, Igor Orovac, Manuel Pernersdorfer, Roman Pfeffer , Martin Pflügler, Barbara Philipp, Wolfgang Philipp, Eberhard Plümpe, Oliver Prohaska, Anke Röhrscheid, Lionel Röhrscheid, Judith Schroffner, Laura Stadtegger, Ralf Schmitt, Macek Smolu k, Leopold Schuster, Veronika Schwegler, Petra Sperlhofer, Andreas Stasta, Hans Peter Stürzenbaum, Katrin Sturm, Martin Strasser, Annette Tesarek, Christina Tsilidis, Jasmin Wolfram, Rainer Waldhäusl, David Weiss, Klemens Wihlidal, Ludwig Wüst

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Newspaper reports

  1. ↑ Falter of August 4, 2004 ( Memento of December 23, 2004 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ The standard article dated November 9, 2004 ( Memento of the original dated February 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / derstandard.at
  3. ↑ Berliner Zeitung article from July 31, 2004
  4. ^ Art database "Basis Wien", article from July 31, 2004