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Künstler Machen Fahnen 1974 Rottweil Stadtfest

Artist: Coum Transmissions

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Country: Germany
Format: Mag/Lit
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In 1974, Genesis P-Orridge as Coum Transmissions were among 170 artists who did Flag-Designs for a "Stadtfest" in Rottweil which had been called "Künstler Machen Fahnen"

22 x 7.5 x 8cm, unpaginated – approx 500pp. The cover has a raised die-cut felt cover forming the title. The documentation and collective artist’s book which reproduces the 170 different flags designed by various artists for this massive conceptual show – with each being allocated a page for a reproduction of the design and their instructions as well as a biography/contact details.
Contains full plans of the installations and the programme of associated events including an early Coum/P-orridge/Cossi Fanny Tutti performance where they performed ‘Schlimm’ and ‘All that Glitters is not Kunst’ – two important actions which lasted over 3 hours each and were performed in the town square in front of several hundred bemused residents. (See Ford 1999, 4.22 – 4.26 for a detailed description). This is an interesting solid bookwork designed to open like a carpet swatch with a single screw binding at top left.

Some participants besides P-Orridge had been:
Adler, Bury, Hodgkin, Kahlen, Oppenheim, Smith, Anatol, Brodwolf, Dorazio, Geccelli, Geiger, Gonschior, Hajek, E. Hauser, K. Heider, Lenk, Luther, Mack, Megert, Nannucci, Pfahler, Prager, Quinte, Riley, Schwegler, Seuphor, Thieler, H. Trier, T. Ulrichs....

Beschreibung: 170 Künstler gestalten eine Fahne für Rottweil. Diese sowie biographische Angaben bilden den Fahnenkatalog, ergänzt durch einige Texte, Werbeseiten, Veranstaltungsinformationen etc. Schöner Objektkatalog mit Beiträgen u.a. von Anatol, Brodwolf, Bury, Dorazio, Geccelli, Geiger, Gonschior, Hajek, E. Hauser, K. Heider, Lenk, Luther, Mack, Megert, Nannucci, Pfahler, Prager, Quinte, Riley, Schwegler, Seuphor, Thieler, H. Trier, T. Ulrichs etc....
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