Henry was born in Paris, France,[3] and began experimenting at the age of 15 with sounds produced by various objects. He became fascinated with the integration of noise into music, now called noise music
Posted By: Paul - Sun May 26, 2024 -
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Category: Music, 1970s, Europe, Cacophony, Dissonance, White Noise and Other Sonic Assaults
Posted By: Paul - Thu May 09, 2024 -
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Category: Movies, Debuts, Christenings, Launches and Reboots, 1950s, Europe
Posted By: Paul - Tue Apr 23, 2024 -
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Category: Hobbies and DIY, Inventions, Music, Europe
Posted By: Paul - Mon Mar 18, 2024 -
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Category: Crime, Hygiene, Advertising, 1980s, Europe
Brus was a co-founder in 1964 of Viennese Actionism (German: Wiener Aktionismus) with Otto Muehl, Hermann Nitsch, and Rudolf Schwarzkogler. His aggressively presented actionism intentionally disregarded conventions and taboos, with the intent of shocking the viewer. At the Kunst und Revolution event at the University of Vienna in 1968, Brus urinated into a glass then proceeded to cover his body in his own excrement, and during the performance Brus also sang the Austrian National Anthem while masturbating. Brus ended the piece by drinking his own urine and inducing vomiting, and was subsequently arrested. Through this piece and his other performance works, Brus hoped to reveal the still fascist essence of the nation. This performance created a public outrage at the time and the participants were dubbed by the media as uniferkel or "University Piggies." Sentenced to 6 months in prison after the event and subsequent public reactions, he fled to Berlin with his family and returned to Austria in 1976.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Feb 14, 2024 -
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Category: Misbehavior, Rebellion, Acting-out and General Naughtiness, Performance Art, Outrageous Excess, Europe, Twentieth Century, Nausea, Revulsion and Disgust
Posted By: Paul - Tue Feb 13, 2024 -
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Category: War, Europe, South America, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Love & Romance
Posted By: Paul - Thu Feb 08, 2024 -
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Category: Animals, Eccentrics, Music, Europe, Nineteenth Century
Dancer Nina Payne (USA) Nina Payne doing exercises in the Elizabeth Arden beauty parlor, Paris (to prepare for her performance in the Folies-Bergere) - undated, probably 1925
Posted By: Paul - Sat Jan 20, 2024 -
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Category: Eccentrics, Bohemians, Beatniks, Hippies and Slackers, 1920s, Dance, Europe
TV version of the popular radio program with André van Duin and Ferry de Groot in which the various characters were portrayed on screen by hand puppets in the first season (1977-1978) and full body costumes in the second (1978-1979).
Posted By: Paul - Sun Jan 14, 2024 -
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Category: Puppets and Automatons, Television, 1970s, Europe
Posted By: Paul - Wed Nov 22, 2023 -
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Category: Bicycles and Other Human-powered Vehicles, Daredevils, Stuntpeople and Thrillseekers, Europe, Mental Health and Insanity
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