Mixed media show
Mixed Media Show was a highly neo-Dadaist cultural event that took place on Friday, October 18, 1968 in the Kunsthaus Hamburg , then still Ferdinandstor 1, as a totally overcrowded and finally closed by the police .
Idea and goal
The idea arose from a cultural and political strategy of the CO-OP artist cooperative Hamburg , which wanted to exert a greater influence on the Kunsthaus Hamburg with this event.
Organizers
The organizers of the major event were eight Hamburg artists: Dato Dahlke, Dizi (Dirk Zimmer), Dieter Glasmacher , Jürgen Klossowski, Natias Neutert , Werner Nöfer , Herman Prigann and Charly Wüllner
style
The poster was designed like a manifesto, with absurd claims and surreal text fragments by the authors in a barely comprehensible desert of letters. A cultural event, a social event, an evening of encounter, an opportunity for public self-expression, the night of long necks, the sweep, the new wind in the Kunsthaus, a civic happening , including an invitation to group masturbation, 200 DM for smart housewives, informational mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, projections, flags, (...) bare, hashish, fucking, showcases, altars, etc. The choice of words revealed in tone and style the origin of Dada and vom Merz (art term) as well as influences of the happening phenomenon, which has spread to Amsterdam, London and Cologne for some time .
event
The event, which met with widespread curiosity, had already been announced days before in the Hamburger Abendblatt as a “giant spectacle”, as a “mixture of art, politics and happening.” It took place on all three floors of the Kunsthaus and was - entirely in the spirit of the time influential American media philosopher Marshall McLuhan - designed in such a way “that everything happens side by side at the same time.” There were objects, films, environments and happening scenes to be seen and actively experienced. The rumor that you would see a bloodstained and stark naked girl tied to a car body caused an additional rush. On site, however, this turned out to be a painted mannequin on an installation by the sculptor Bernd Freter entitled Blutrausch on the B 75 . What was planned by the organizers as an open end was closed by the police in the late evening due to the risk of collapse. The well-known Hamburg lawyer Kurt Groenewold had to defend the organizers and artists Werner Nöfer and Dieter Glasmacher in a process that a Hamburg public prosecutor had opened against the two. Accusation: pornography, offense: illustration of a non-erect male part of the sex on the poster. The proceedings were discontinued after the director of the Hamburger Kunsthalle Werner Hofmann had prepared an opinion.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Now housed in the Markthalle Hamburg , Klosterwall 15.
- ↑ Cf. Nadine Lischick: Dieter Glasmacher is the exaggeration artist in the Hamburger Abendblatt from August 4, 2011.
- ↑ See Nathias-Neutert-Magazin No. 1, Cicero-Presse, Hamburg 1968 - only published once.
- ↑ See also BILD from October 19, 1968, p. 15
- ↑ http://www.nrw-museum.de/#/mehr/biografien/detailansicht/details/artists///werner-noefer.html
- ↑ http://www.deponie-stief.de/deponie/prigann/prigann1.htm
- ↑ http://www.abendblatt.de/ratgeber/extra-journal/article846956/Papiere-von-Charly-Wuellner.html
- ↑ See Mixed Media Show Poster 1968, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg poster collection.
- ↑ See Mixed Media Show Poster 1968, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg poster collection.
- ↑ As even the BILD pointed out on October 19, 1968, p. 15
- ↑ Cf. Bazon Brock: Aesthetics as Mediation. Working biography of a generalist. DuMont Buchverlag, Cologne 1977, pp. 256-257.
- ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt, October 14, 1968, p. 17.
- ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt, December 30, 1968, p. 8.
- ↑ Cf. Nathias-Neutert-Magazin No. 1, Cicero-Presse, Hamburg 1968, p. 1.
- ↑ See BILD from October 19, 1968, p. 15