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dé-coll/age manifestó (1961)

Wolf Vostell

Wolf Vostell

Ti­tle of the album: dé-coll/age Musik
Ti­tle: dé-coll/age manifesto (Track 02)
Publisher: Multhipla Record, Milano
Da­te: 1961
Me­di­um: re­cord 30 cm + colour print
Cover: W. Vostell

 

Wolf Vostell developed the term dé-collage/age in the mid-1950s after reading the word décollage (breaking loose, taking off) on the front page of a newspaper reporting on a plane crash. At that time, décollage also referred to the technique of tearing down posters used by artists such as Raymond Hains, Jacques de la Villeglé and François Dufrêne. Vostell changed the spelling of the term and applied it to his art, in which he worked a lot with destruction, dismantling, reconstruction and reassembly. Initially, he only named his works on paper after it, later also happenings and video works, and made dé-coll/age the basic principle of his artistic work.

The piece dé-coll/age manifestó on the album dé-coll/age plays the field recording of a happening in 1961. Sounds of physical work can be heard, suggesting continuous progress, while at the same time, many conversations of visitors present can be heard in the background, very little of which is intelligible but which testify to the presence of a larger number of spectators.

Dé-coll/age music is Vostell's first album. It contains sound works created between the 1950s and 1980s.

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