Július KollerContact (Anti-Happening) 1969

Contact (Anti-Happening) is the photographic documentation of a ‘cultural situation’, as Koller termed his conceptual installation and performance works. It consists of a black and white photograph mounted on a single sheet of card, with the work’s title, its year of production and the artist’s name handwritten along the bottom. The photograph shows a striped carpet runner, which the artist has placed on a large pile of coal that is blocking the pavement of a street. The positioning of the runner makes it resemble a landing strip, or a bridge across the pile of coal. The pile of coal fills most of the photograph, but there are people visible in the background, unaware that they are being photographed… (read more)