Actions Concert fur Al Hansen. - announcement.

Vienna.: Galerie nächst St. Stephan., 1966. Single sheet, offset printed in black on pink paper.. (21 x 15.3 cm).. The original printed announcement for the ‘Actions Concert for Al Hansen’, held on the evening of 29 October 1966 at cleric Otto Mauer’s Galerie nächst St. Stephan in Vienna. Besides Muehl and Nitsch, Rudolf Schwarzkogler also took part, meaning that three of Vienna Actionism’s main proponents performed together while also allowing a wider circle of Viennese artists to join. Alongside Kurt Kren and Peter Weibel, Oswald Wiener appeared with the Actionists for the first time. Further participants included the painter and musician Christian Ludwig Attersee, the writer Reinhard Priessnitz and Dieter Haupt. Many of the artists’ contributions took place simultaneously throughout the evening: Kren passed filmstrips around the audience, Attersee projected a one-hour film (Gartenfilm) on to the wall, and Weibel, accompanied by Muehl performed his ‘action lecture 2’ through the use of a megaphone. [Ref. Vienna Actionism. Art and Upheaval in 1960s’ Vienna. Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, illus. 761].