Lecture: Meat as a tool

by Stéphane Ghislain Roussel

January 12, 2024, 5pm — 7pm

Resdienzschloss (Royal Castle) - Dresden State Art Collections, Dresden, DE

Hermann Nitsch, Das Letzte Abendmahl, 1983
The Hoffmann Collection donation has enriched the program of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden since 2018. Works from this donation are continuously integrated into the current collection presentation. Accompanying the exhibition “Concept and Encounter: The World around 1600”, the director, dramaturge and curator Stéphane Ghislain Roussel will talk about Hermann Nitsch’s Gesamtkunstwerk.

Hermann Nitsch (1938-2022), co-founder of Viennese Actionism, created a multi-layered oeuvre that stems from the search for the Gesamtkunstwerk and its cathartic power. By exploring the anthropocentric nature of Nitsch’s approach in counterpoint to new modalities of interaction between living beings, Stéphane Ghislain Roussel’s lecture examines the power of the flesh and of ritual. The starting point here is Nitsch’s work “Entwurf einer unterirdischen Stadt nach dem Bilde des letzten Abendmahles für das Aktionsdrama ‘Die Zerstörung und Wiedererstehung unseres Weltalls'” (1983/89), a relic of an action that is currently being shown in the collection presentation “Concept and Encounter: The World around 1600” in the Rüstkammer.

Meeting point at Hans-Nadler-Saal
Admission free
The event is planned to be hybrid, i.e. online participation is possible.
The lecture will be held in german language.

 

Resdienzschloss (Royal Castle) - Dresden State Art Collections
Taschenberg 2
01067 Dresden
Germany
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