georg decristel

1937 hall/tirol. studies in law, economics, social sciences, linguistics, philosophy.
travelling extensively in spirals, treading, treading on, treading on the spot.
visual concepts in the sixties (bücherstuhl, bücherschemel, straßentheater,textwände, literaturpartituren); then strolling jew's harping, intriques at readings whith poets like: h.c. artmann, f.achleitner, e.jandl, f.mayröcker, gerhard rühm...
confrontations (e.g.with electronic sound productions - k.ager)...
mystifications strolling performances, lectures, workshops at innumerable european and american confluences. contributions e.g. to OM theatre h.nitsch, artfairs all over europe, also concerts since 1975...
strolling performances mainly in italy (pari dispari, suono ambiente, mare-porto città, literature workshops (also in germany and austria). -strolling interventions also at international sound poetry meetings in italy and canada...
seminars and lectures on my work e.g. vienna university, chicago art institute...
work in fine arts e.g. jew's harp sound picture poems during demonstrations at the academy of science, viennna...
good will tours and strolling performances in usa, exhibitions in new york, (BEACHART) san francisco (museum of conceptional art), berkley, calif. (university art museum, chicago (museum of contemporary art and art institute, 1978.)...

collabs in new york, soho, broadway, blank, ear inn-out; central park pieces, in memoriam george maciunas; callings for r. filliou and j.cage ("once a newyorker"), clearings for laurie anderson, M'lou caring, collabs. for art on the beach, new york city with s.forti & p.van riper; "grey rabbits turning red on acid", nevada wyoming...
privatissima with p.stembera, g.pane, r.kriesche, t.fox, b.sherk, j.scott,p.plonsky gamelansky... creation of the POST MOCA BREAKFAST SOCIETY (cafe central, innsbruck, every wednesday morning).

gay lord's battery sound (bay area) & performance extravaganza...
concert at terry fox's greatest guitar of the world in a yerba buena pit...
(dedicated to john cage, titeled "the harvest moon")...
toronto pieces for dick higgins.(n.b.ch.morrow).
lessons   e.g. at thomas kovachevich center (chicago)...
"runners using the heart to span the brink of disaster" (one of countless sessions) together with m'lou caring, for jew's harp and rocks...





work in progress:  book publications ed.neue texte, h.bäcker, (linz),
work at the galerie im taxispalais and galerie krinzinger (innsbruck),
1979 concerts in new york, washington, buffalo, etc. e.g. interventions in france, belgium, canada; publications in new wilderness audiographics in ear magaz., new york.
travellings between sill and inn,   between state university and provincial prison (innsbruck)...


jew's harping, unfamiliar soundproduction through breath and breaks in the shadow; minimalization, sempre MOVING A WAY? supranational lip confessions flashing ones teeth at the edge of speech and silence, that is subversion of conventional total art projects.   public work, where private orgasm takes away the breath of the highest aesthetic knowledge, fertile in the contradictions of every turn of breath, spiralling illusions of a throat voicer, a singer of the voiced smoke, concentration on moving a way from the sound of confluences, aware of mystifications of moving a way; correspondingly, concentration on tapesound & moving a way...spiralling expansion of mystifications strolling from confluence to confluence, speaking through the jew's harp according to an existing (imagined) rhythm of the outer (inner) world, and bringing it to an end as late (that is, as quickly) as possible.
g.d. oct. 1978






Biographie (Deutsch; bis 1978)
Biographische Notizen, fragmentarisch ergänzt ab 1980

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