Andreas Ammer & Console - "Have You Ever Heard Of Wilhelm Reich?"
intermedium rec. 042
Stereo CD - 5.1 DVD /
ISBN 978-3-939444-70-1
release date: 25.09.2009
In the end he believed he was a student of Freud and a friend of Einstein, the offspring of a celestial race. And Wilhelm Reich had already solved all of humanity's problems. Whether as a brilliant Austrian psychiatrist ('The Sexual Revolution'), later as a clear-sighted analyst of the global crisis ('The Mass Psychology of Fascism'), then as a communist and sexual politician ('Sexpol') or finally – after his cryptic discovery of orgone energy – as a healer of cancer and rainmaker in the American desert ('The ORANUR Experiment'), Wilhelm Reich solved all the world's problems and those of space as well.
When Wilhelm Reich's collaborators informed the US government that he had discovered the secret of life, the authorities replied that in their view there was no such thing. (...)
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Raphael Montañez Ortiz - Duncan Terrace Piano Destruction Concert London 1966
Loopspool - Beschleunigter Zerfall. Piano Destruction Concert 1966. Remix
intermedium rec. 038
CD /
ISBN 978-3-939444-65-7
release date: 05.12.2008
The Thirteenth Tape
It all started with a puzzle: the German Literature Archive in Marbach am Neckar houses the estate of the Dadaist, psychiatrist and travel writer Richard Huelsenbeck (*1892 Frankenau, +1974 Minusio/Tessin), consisting mainly of typescripts, hand-written records, letters and photographs. The estate also includes a box containing 13 audio tapes. In 1991, I offered to the Archive that I would have the tapes, which were already disintegrating at the splices and displaying other signs of decay, digitalised and catalogued at Bayerischer Rundfunk. The recordings are mainly of lectures and a small number of readings of Huelsenbeck's poems. Then there was this thirteenth tape. The recording did not seem to relate in any way to Richard Huelsenbeck and his works. It was therefore ignored for a long time. A few years ago I came across Ralph Ortiz – or Raphael Montañez Ortiz, as the artist now calls himself (*1934 Brooklyn, NYC) – in a book on video art, and I remembered in this connection that I had read the name on one of the tape boxes. In fact the box bore the following hand-written notes: "Ralph Ortiz performed his piano Destruction concerto No. 2 in Home of Mr. J. Lun(d)smann" "10/10/1966 Destruction in Art Symposium (London)" "Ralph Ortiz Piano Destruction Concer[!] with Interview DIAS 1966".
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V.A. - Tribute to Gustav Metzger
Feat.: Anna McCarthy - Anton Kaun - Carl Oesterhelt - Catriona Shaw - Cobra Killer - Dennis Graef -
Dompteur Mooner - Eva Weinmayr - Frau Kraushaar & Nova Huta Lee Holden - Max Müller -
Melissa
Logan - Michaela Melián - Mosh Mosh - POLLYester - Rhythm King and her friends -
Schwestern
Brüll feat. Raumschiff Engelmayr - Stewart Home / Nigel Ayers -
Ted Gaier / Mense Reents - Wolfgang Müller - Yoko Ono
intermedium rec. 036
2 CDs + booklet / ISBN 978-3-939444-63-3
release date: 05.12.2008
We wrote letters but received no replies. One of us pushed a note under the door of his flat in London. Then we were able to speak to him. But the tape recorder had to stay off.
He was born in Nürnberg. His parents, orthodox Jews, and nearly all his other relatives were murdered by the Nazis during the Second World War. When the Refugee Children Movement saved him in 1939 and brought him to England, he was twelve. Twenty years later he gave his first individual exhibition entitled Three Paintings by G. Metzger in a London café.
Half a century ago he published his first manifesto, in which he defined his notion of Auto-Destructive Art:
Auto-destructive art is primarily a form of public art for industrial societies.
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