Fluxus - Wolf Vostell - Sun in your head

[DoomSoLdier16]

What the hell ?!

[Jusstfnsk8]

Hey check out my experimental tribute video its called "Probability of chance".

[GallopingDog]

does the original film look like this? because it seems to me that the frames per second of the film/projection and the digital camera are not the same...?

[susannehaller]

großartig*

[ShaltNot07]

dude wtf? i think i got a seizure?

[pablorobo]

It was part of a wider art movement that saw destruction as an important part of creativity than previously considered. Wolf Vostell was a German artist and one of the key figures in the dias (destruction in art) movement with his form of the idea called de/collage On it's own this film would not mean that much to any unknowing viewer (other than perhaps that it was somewhat like abstract painting using the tv screen) but once looked at in this wider picture of deconstruction and dismantling

[ORubenzgzO]

this has no sense, things like this cant be art.

[Zeanu]

@ORubenzgzO Come now... it's simply not your attitude.

[Parladaz]

que pendejada

[Carameeloo]

que elocuente

[adrianariasperu]

que bueno!

[Redstar309Z]

As a Vj I have been hugly influeneced by Wolf ,Paik, Brakhage But this video is absolutely a momentous work for me. I remember seeing it at film school and seeing it here reminds me of how It made me feel, liberated. please check my video response

[FedericoSantarsiero]

Is this one of the first works of Vostell? the ones which appeared at 1959? Need a bit of help, the images showed, are from TV and then transformed?

[earthlydelights2006]

great!

[gecekusu36]

uzuri's mother

[PyePye7]

Vostell reverts to the effect of early TV transmission test pictures from the 30's where electronic synchronisation was a major task. Later, technological progress presented the brains smoother imagery which made it easier to find sense/interpretation'. This video shows imagery with large holes in-between, the brain has to work harder allowing it more space for all sorts of interpretations which would usually work against the interest of the manipulators >TV stations and groups behind.

[blueseagull]

I do love fluxus, but I think I prefer the Dada manifesto ;D

[teonasno]

vostell it´s most primitive than paik. No is the first, they are only ones.

[PyePye7]

Is this a translation machine?

[dboyd]

Wolf- I'm sorry but this was not interesting enough for me to watch. It looks like many similar movies I watched at the Kenyon Fil Festival, circa 1968 or so. It also reminds me of PAIKS videos of about that time. I would be interested in hearing from you as to when it was made and what your main ideas were for it at the time. -Don Boyd

[sjh343]

vostell made it a very long time ago and was Paiks inspiration to start using video in his art and they were good friends. vostell was the first video artist, predating paik and others.

[PyePye7]

Wolf's long dead & got other fish to fry. Vid Art was a new media in the 60's and +-provocative to the eyes/minds back then. Today, the synapses are conditioned according to now. Certain Art Statements (of the 60's) are to be quite likely irrelevant today. Did their job back then and to be switched off afterwards (except for the museums). Expectations that things have to last forever are illusionary, look at good food! Wolf obviously lived for the Now, a modest & sympathetic gesture.

[aurileide]

I agree with you. Wolf´s research about the "new media" of his time was so important to nowadays art movements that it is simply impossible to think about it without considering the movement ot video and computer art. He was a brilliant artist. Pity not everybody understand his meaning. But I was glad to hear that you do.

[popeseyes]

why cannot this work be re-entered at anytime.. my synapses still snap to Rembrandt etc and are not set to any o'clock

[PyePye7]

Of course, can be re-entered anytime - agree. To add >the resulting impact of an art statement is first related to the Zeitgeist at which point it was created. It may then be perceived:In phase (time-wise), out of phase (as with many old Masters) or in-phase again later resonance-wise. Some things come back again & again, may even take on a new meaning etc...

[livmassei]

loved