Projektdatenbank (ab 2004)

Projektnummer

0057703

Zusammenfassung

Scandal, revolution and transgression are the normal conditions of avant garde culture. This research project examines the role of material objects as protagonists of transgression and scandal in the process of canonizing the act of destruction within 20th century art. The study focuses on the destruction of traditional musical instruments during the historical avant garde era and the period of the neo avant garde in the 1960/70s. In the process of transferring the musical instruments from their original handcrafted context to a state of destruction and transformation in artistic perfo...