Vlado Kristl Tigerkäfig / Tiger Cage 1971, film still Courtesy Filmmuseum München
Vlado Kristl Tigerkäfig / Tiger Cage 1971, film still Courtesy Filmmuseum München
Vlado Kristl Die Hälfte des Reichtums für die Hälfte der Schönheit / One Half of Wealth for One Half of Beauty
Taking its title from Ende der Ordnung / The End of Order Kristl’s last artists’ book that was published in Munich in March 2004 shortly before his death; this final programme presents key works from Kristl’s late period. Ranging from his rediscovered Super8 film Tigerkäfig / Tiger Cage, a proposal for an impossible performance to be viewed from an airplane, to his last video Weltkongress der Obdachlosen / Conference of the Homeless made in collaboration with actress Carola Regnier. These works celebrate improvisation and freedom as much as they protest against the repression of art and humanity. With titles that act as manifestos – such as Als man noch aus persönlichen Gründen gelebt hat / When People Were Still Living for Personal Reasons 1993 or Kunst ist nur außerhalb der Menschengesellschaft / Art is only outside Human Society 2002 - these final works present a unique vision for the place of art in society and a call for it to be liberated from order and convention.
Tigerkäfig / Tiger Cage
Vlado Kristl, West Germany 1971, Super8 transferred to video, colour, 14 min
Die Schule der Postmoderne / School of the Postmodern
Vlado Kristl, Germany 1990, colour, 15 min
Kunst ist nur außerhalb der Menschengesellschaft / Art is only outside Human Society
Vlado Kristl, Germany 2002, colour, 9 min
Der letze Klon / The Last Clone
Vlado Kristl, Germany 1998, colour, 6 min
Weltkongress der Obdachlosen / Conference of the Homeless
Vlado Kristl with Carola Regnier and Johanna Pauline Maier, Germany 2003, colour, 5 min
Als man noch aus persönlichen Gründen gelebt hat / When People Were Still Living for Personal Reasons
Vlado Kristl, Germany 1993, colour, 8 min
Die Hälfte des Reichtums für die Hälfte der Schönheit / One Half of Wealth for One Half of Beauty
Vlado Kristl, Germany 1994, colour, 9 min
Programme duration: 66 min
Vlado Kristl: Death to the Audience is realised with additional support from the Goethe-Institut London and in collaboration with the Munich Film Museum.