DVE036 Austrian Action Art: Muehl a Valie Export (Brigitte Marschall)

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2016
Extent and Intensity
2/0. 1 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Tomáš Kubart, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Prof. Brigitte Marschall (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Margita Havlíčková
Department of Theatre Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Karolína Stehlíková, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Theatre Studies – Faculty of Arts
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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Course objectives
Otto Muehl and Valie Export (Waltraud Lehner) represent the leading representatives of a post-war Austrian branch of performative arts, the Viennese Actionism, that was born as a reaction to the conformist government of the Christian Democratic Union, ruling the country in 1960s. Although their collaboration did not last for long, the period when they organized together a series of formally and ideologically provoking events (1962–1970) seriously influenced the development of performative arts, theatre, and especially experimental cinema. To achieve a complex and meaningful interpretation of their artistic work, an interdisciplinary approach need to be applied combining methodological tools of Theatre and Film Studies with those of sociology and politology. At the turn of 1960s and 70s, Valie Export moved her attention towards feminism, while Muehl left the life of an artist for good and founded a community based on the “dictatorship of free love” (Aktionsanalytische Organisation) in a small village of Friedrichshof, 25 km west of Bratislava.
Literature
    recommended literature
  • Marschall, Brigitte: Politisches Theater nach 1950. Bohlau Verlag. 2010, 483 S.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught: in blocks.
General note: německy (tlumočeno).
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