Mühls 1964 Material Action Manifesto offers some theoretical framework for understanding this: ...material action is painting that has spread beyond the picture surface. The human body, a laid table or a room becomes the picture surface. Time is added to the dimension of the body and space.[2] A 1967 revision of the same manifesto Mühl wrote: ... material action promises the direct pleasures of the table. Material action satiates. Far more important than baking bread is the urge to take dough-beating to the extreme.[2] Brus and Mühl participated in the Kunst und Revolution (Art and Revolution) event in Vienna, June 1968, issuing the following proclamation: ... our assimilatory democracy maintains art as a safety valve for enemies of the state ... the consumer state drives a wave of art before itself; it attempts to bribe the artist and thus to rehabilitate his revolutionising art as an art that supports the state. But art is not art. Art is politics that has created new styles of communication.[2]
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