BY Theo Altenberg in Features | 09 NOV 13
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Issue 12

Wiener Gruppe III: On Konrad Bayer

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BY Theo Altenberg in Features | 09 NOV 13

TESTICULAR-EAR
TESTICULAR-TILT
TESTICULAR-CELL
TESTICULAR-GOLD
TESTICULAR-WINE

TESTICULAR-HABIT
TESTICULAR-CLIENT
TESTICULAR-CURSES
TESTICULAR-WOMAN

TESTICULAR-BUNKER
TESTICULAR-THEORY
TESTICULAR-SCALPEL
TESTICULAR-TRACTOR
TESTICULAR-TOMBOLA
TESTICULAR-REGISTER
TESTICULAR-CULTDEED
TESTICULAR-CHALKPUBE

TESTICULAR-SACKAPHIDS
TESTICULAR-THIRSTNEED
TESTICULAR-CLIFFWHARF
TESTICULAR-WORKERMASK
TESTICULAR-SWINDELZONE
TESTICULAR-NIGHTTIMECAP
TESTICULAR-VALUECANNULA
TESTICULAR-CRYPTCHAMBER

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(Applying several of his contours)

Seen from post-warlike WestGermany, Vienna was but a footnote on the other side of a mountain face. An abyss had opened, despite the Donau.

Those deliberating, dismantling, impeaching, imploding and entombing this perspective had more single-minded standards. Performing deeper root canal treatment, uncovering more unconscionable works-in-progress, and brandishing more insightful WreckingBalls.

In Vienna, the ElectricPulsations of Austrian pronunciation experienced a nasal UpSurge of a particularly high-frequencied arrogance.

At the same time, one distinctly shat in, around and throughout the stinking dog jowls. An aggrieved ‘I’ reacted to life inside the test tube with suicide, gladly and without much ado. Or with world-healing, inventing NewIdeology. Where else could it have been possible for Wilhelm Reich, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Adolf Hitler to be born from the same cobblestones.

When Bayer unleashed his SignificationTransplantations there, many a person felt the grave open up beneath them, the shreds of words began to stand on their own, floundering at first, then scuttling on soft and nimble feet. He injects the square with poetry and, with a seizing gesture, sobs deeply into a tango step modified to fit nature.

WithCheerfulness from tragic Germacrocosms. Far from making fun of. EarnestnessCheer. SeriousnessCheer. WickednessCheer. SadnessCheer. DistraughtCheer. Salacious sidles up to parts of a dead body. His obscene truths are a pure dirty cover-up for his more romantic tentacles. He demonstrated his tongue mainly in his DandyBed. With gentleness between his teeth.

Dangerous word-idiots can inspire entire masses of folklore. Power is a category of MovingSpeech. A cloaked call to ArmsMovement is not enough to transform written characters into something we can hold. It should start with sucking mother’s milk from a nipple. To become Supremacy, the word-parcels must be loaded while dancing and then sung immediately. This way one can later word-bubble above them, extensively, succinctly and calculatedly.

Rumba. Samba. And Boogie Woogie while breathing the oppressor’s gas.

Self-removal. Sole omnipotence.
Translations by Yana Vierboom

Theo Altenberg is an artist, musician and writer. In 1983, as a member of Otto Muehl’s AAO Commune, he founded the Friedrichshof Collection and the Archive of Viennese Actionism.

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