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Christoph Schlingensief: 

"So finish ... this is not meant for the public."

Christoph Schlingensief - Fremdverstümmelung

Klaus Beyer - Zurück in die USSR

former actor for christoph schlingensief more here!

Schlingensief's Biennale Pavillion

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Brutality in Stone

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talking about death, alexander kluge has been always very influential to christoph schlingensief. in memoriam his latest post on his great blog dctp.tv is paying tribute to his (in)famous "student".unfortunately its all in german.

Christoph Schlingensief died today Saturday 21.August 2010

He's dead.Christoph Schlingensief died today.He was like a good friend to me.I followed his life & work for a long time now.His openess and honesty always impressed me deeply. his works always touched my soul. I was very lucky to see him last year on the holland festival in amsterdam. Oh my god this is so incredibly sad! I am so sorry now...Schlingensief's lung cancer could not be cured.In two months he would have become 50 years old. CRAP!!
:-(
above pic. taken from one of his latest plays "Eine Kirche der Angst vor dem Fremden in mir":

INTERCESSIONS

I WANT TO BE ALL BY MYSELF ONE DAY.
ALONE ON THIS EARTH.
I WANT TO STAND BY MYSELF AND SAY BY MYSELF,
THIS IS MY LIFE.
THEN I'LL CRY
AND BE SHATTERED.
BUT AT LEAST,I'LL HAVE BEEN ALL BY MYSELF THIS ONCE.

exerpts from the MTV project U-3000:

Verliezen is de nieuwe winnen!

Holland is crying now together with Germany.and that's why we should be happy now! because there's nothing to win out there, nothing to lose. everything is meaningless and empty.unlike the moon and the stars our world does not work for us: illusion is a strange place! christoph schlingensief got testified another tumor in his lung. he won't make it all too long, i guess. and that's really bad news (to me). you can see him lying on that x-ray apparatus here. somewhere there he says: the normal, the average is our greatest gift.enjoy the normal, don't you ever say again: "ich kann nicht mehr !"

Hans Haacke did a good job here [1993]*

* [only maybe in here, i would't trust myself into this] we'll see what C.S. will do out of the old Nazi Pavillion in Venedig.

MAAR KOMM out of your own Kunstverklärung stop watching pictures on the wall!!!! the time of the young wild is over ... they were also men of old ... and they think only of the suspension point of pictures, instead of spending time thinking about the content ...

"All Art Is In The Past. [ you create it, and its been done!]"* while G. Richter is pissed, Christoph Schlingensief rocks again !

* [...daar gaan we naar het volgende graf!], originated by...



Unfortunately, the one who says this, is the most influential living German artist Gerhard Richter: "They take a performer, while we have thousands of artists!" The artist complained during a visit to its new premises in the Dresdner Albertinum... why do they hate each other?

C.Schlingensief will do the 2011 Venedig Pavillion for Germany.[ja, panik!!!]

Für Kulturzeit begleitet der junge Journalist Lionel Some Schlingensiefs Produktion VIA INTOLLERANZA II. Zweiter Teil aus der Reihe "Der Afrikanische Blick" [from 3Sat]:

Schlingensief - Bitte liebt Österreich

this is an event by christoph schlingensief in vienna, austria. there right next to the wiener oper, they installed a container where 12 immigrants lived for a duration of one week. like in big brother, people who called could kick the immigrants out of the container and decide who will get back to their country. every day two people had to go. the winner could get some money and as far as possible he or she could find after somebody to marry to stay in austria! it happened right in the year 2000 when austria got its right wing coalition running the government. of course this event stirred up a lot of controversies like many other projects of schlingensief. on the top of the container you see the writting "auslaender raus" which had to be renewed almost every day, because it got demolished by acid and colourbombs. many locals got really offended by the openess and directness of this event. as you can see here, this old lady hitting and screaming at schlingensief "du kuenstler!":