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Aktionskunst International. Dokumente zum Internationalen Aktionismus (1989)

Directed by Valie Export

Overview

A comprehensive documentation of new art movements from 1945 to the present day. Beginning with the “Internationale Situationniste,” “Cobra,” “Spur,” and “Wiener Gruppe” groups in Europe, and moving on to the international Happening and Fluxus movements, including the Viennese Actionists, and from 1970 onward to international Body and Performance Art, which also encompassed media art—film and video—the documentary presents film and photographic material from these art movements.

Length 73 minutes

Actors

Valie Export | Vito Acconci | Jean Baudrillard | Karen Finley | Dick Higgins | Allan Kaprow | Otto Muehl | Jørgen Nash | Gina Pane | Mark Pauline | Gerhard Rühm | Carolee Schneemann | Jens Jørgen Thorsen | Wolf Vostell