Exposition

PPC – A PROJECT TO CRITICAL REAPPRAISAL OF THE HISTORY OF THE MÜHL "COMMUNE". (2023)

Elisabeth Schäfer
Elisabeth Schäfer, Paul Robert Anxionnaz, Ida Clay

About this exposition

This open exposition was designed by Elisabeth Schäfer, Paul-Julien Robert, and Ida Clay as members of the PPC FWF PEEK project to critically examine the history of the Mühl "commune"/sect at Friedrichshof/Burgenland Austria. Founded by the Viennese Actionist artist Otto Mühl in 1972 and dissolved by the Communards in 1990, the "AA Commune" was initially dedicated to raising awareness of habitualization through domination in everyday socio-cultural life practice and to liberating people from the sphere of influence of powerful social institutions. Their declared goal was to overcome authoritarian institutions such as the state, the church, the bourgeois family, capitalism, and patriarchy with the help of science, art, and liberated sexuality. The social experiment ended in a highly authoritarian system within a controlled community. Mühl was sentenced to seven years in prison for multiple sexual abuse. Together with contemporary witnesses, the project strives for a re-examination and reappraisal of the commune and its effects through "research in and through the arts" by building a research space collaboratively designed by artists, contemporary witnesses and scholars as a reservoir for the joint exploration of individual and collective historical aspects of the AAO: (Re)writing of Reality Through Discourse. This open exposition is one share of this (re-)writing through discourse. It presents an overview and excerpt from the three-year artistic research project in the form of a research landscape in which various formats can be visited as stages of research. In the form of a mapping we have embedded audio, video and text products into the research landscape of our project. Central locations of this landscape are the Friedrichshof in Burgenland, Austria, site of the former "commune"/sect & the Volkskunde Museum Vienna as national cooperation partner of the project. Title of the project: PPC - Performing Primal Communism. (Re)writing of Reality Through Discourse Principal investigator: Paul-Julien Robert Project Team: Ida Clay, Thomas Marschall, Elisabeth Schäfer Research location: Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (Institute of Fine Arts | IBK) | Karl-Schweighofergasse 3 | 1070 Vienna Cooperation partner: Volkskundemuseum Wien Funding: PPC is an FWF PEEK project [AR568] Project duration: 2020-2023
typeresearch exposition
keywordsMühl Commune, Actionism, Repraisal, Trauma, memory
date24/11/2022
published02/10/2023
last modified02/10/2023
statuspublished
share statusprivate
affiliationAcademy of Fine Arts Vienna
copyrightFWF PEEK PROJECT AR 568 PPC
licenseAll rights reserved
languageGerman
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/1834923/1834924
doihttps://doi.org/10.22501/rc.1834923
published inResearch Catalogue
connected toAcademy of Fine Arts Vienna
external linkhttps://fh-timelines.goldblo.cc/peek


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