Hermann Nitsch on Prime-Tme ITV

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Anyone catch this? Tarrant On TV - you know, the one where we all larf at insane Japanese game-shows and pornographic euro-ads. Last night featured a fairly long clip of one of Nitsch's 'actions' - blood, guts, pussy, dicks in offal, more offal, discordant trombone music, crucifictions.

Of course Tarrant was most disparaging, but that just made me think it was amazing!

― brainliner (brainliner), Friday, 10 January 2003 13:22 (twenty-three years ago)

Did he do dub poetry?????

This sounds funny.

― Tom (Groke), Friday, 10 January 2003 13:27 (twenty-three years ago)

Quite possibly he had some other people doing dub poetry (a lot can happen in six days!)

Nitsch just wondered around looking like LaMonte Young. The beard presumably there to hide his smirk.

― brainliner (brainliner), Friday, 10 January 2003 13:34 (twenty-three years ago)

was tarrant disparaging? i thought he was quite funny, certainly no more judgmental than he is about anything else: if the film of nitsche's art project loses force by being slotted into a sequence of adverts from around the world and treated as if it was one of them, then that's a problem with the film (rather than the art OR tarrant)

"i painted the most daring and revolutionary picture in the history of the world last year, but a minor dj and funnyman made some jokes about it and now no one will take me seriously"

anyway, a free lunch on a par w.hendrix playing live on the lulu show in 1967, so classic

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 10 January 2003 13:52 (twenty-three years ago)

I think he (Tarrant) said something like "Nitsch gets away it with because he calls it 'art', otherwise he'd be dragged off to the funny farm." Which is true enough! So yeah, just his usual sardonic tone.

Still, with something quite extreme like that, artists do run the risk of others who do not call it 'art' dragging them off anyway...

I enjoyed it, and it was funny. Six days would definitely be an experience! And for all I know Chris Tarrant owns the CD box-set and the special edition DVD.

Could this have been the secret influence behind Tizwas?

― brainliner (brainliner), Friday, 10 January 2003 14:34 (twenty-three years ago)

exactly: i think the gunge machine (or whatever it was called) is the great unsung Aktionist project!!

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 10 January 2003 14:42 (twenty-three years ago)

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