Eignblunzn

Eignblunzn (also known as Viennese factionism: Eignblunzn or Auto-Blutwurst ) is an art performance by the art and theory group monochrom from 2003. The performance is considered an important art action in the history of the group and the Austrian art history of the 2000s.

On September 10, 2003, the group members Johannes Grenzfurthner , Evelyn Fürlinger and Harald Homolka-List staged a rustic Austrian Heuriger with a bar and a small kitchen in a room in the Museumsquartier Wien and consumed blood sausage made from the artists' freshly drawn blood . Volunteers could also take part in the action. The German author and Suhrkamp- Lector Johannes Ullmaier and the Austrian radio journalist Gerlinde Lang (from FM4 ) agreed to give an Eignblunznmade from their blood. The campaign was accompanied by flyers and posters, which advertised recipes, but also contained theoretical texts about the “auto- cannibal tendency” of the world market . The project can be read as a critical statement on art, art history, the art market and the martial gesture of performance art (see: Viennese Actionists ). Cultural theorist Thomas Edlinger calls autologous sausage tasting the "sovereign overcooking" of "actionism downgrading with neoliberal self-optimization criticism".

The project inspired other art and media projects such as For example, a TV program by Joko Winterscheidt and Klaas Heufer-Umlauf , which monochrom member Günther Friesinger had flown to Hong Kong to have Eignblunzn made.

The campaign was repeated on October 8, 2018 in the Urania Kino in Vienna as part of Sky Austria's "Sky Night" . 25 volunteers had Styrian blood summer , a special form of blood sausage, made from their blood.

Publications

• Auto cannibalism between hero destruction and myth deconstruction. Paralipomena to the monochrome campaign »Eignblunzn« . Thomas Ballhausen in "Context Hacking", 2013.
• Blood games . V. Mann in "Art as a radical critique of time", 2009.

Web links

• monochroms Viennese factionism project page
• "Blood Circulation" (video from the monochrom series : 23 Works , which deals with the Eignblunzn action )
• wien.at: "20 years of monochrome"
• Artist-in-Residence Program of the MQ : From Actionism to Factionism

Individual evidence

1. ^ Anton Waldt: Art & Subversion: Monochrome . Retrieved March 4, 2019.
2. ↑ monochrome retrospective . Retrieved March 4, 2019.
3. ↑ Context hacking with self-blunt . ORF. Retrieved March 4, 2019.
4. ↑ Blunzen gegen den Boulevard , Der Standard. Retrieved March 4, 2019. 
5. ↑ Wolfgang Paterno: The omnivores . Retrieved March 4, 2019.
6. ↑ Thomas Kramar: Yuck! Now we need to talk about disgust . Retrieved March 4, 2019.
7. ↑ tolerance up to spitting . Retrieved March 4, 2019.
8. ↑ Peter Mühlbauer: Kotze, sperm and inventory in space . Retrieved March 4, 2019.
9. ↑ Sarah Al-Hashimi: Art guerrilla no longer a teen . Retrieved March 4, 2019.
10. ↑ Gerlinde Lang: Watching is more gruesome than doing . ORF. Retrieved March 4, 2019.
11. ↑ Eignblunzn: A modest process? . APA. Retrieved March 4, 2019.
12. ↑ Better than getting better . ORF. Retrieved March 4, 2019.
13. ↑ TV presenters eat human flesh . Retrieved March 4, 2019.
14. ↑ We are not blunted about this snack . Retrieved March 4, 2019.