Live at the Vienna Secession
Nov. 28th, 2007 12:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
imomusHello from Vienna. I'm playing a concert here Wednesday evening at the Secession, the famous art gallery founded in 1897 when a group of artists broke away from the too-conservative Vienna Künstlerhaus. These young hotheads, art nouveau-ers and tearaways appointed sexy Gustav Klimt as their first president.
It was therefore perhaps a little unsubtle of me to say, in the press release I provided to the Secession, that Click Opera is "a daily Kulturfeuilleton written somewhat in the manner of his hero Karl Kraus". Kraus, who singlehandedly produced (from 1899 to 1936, the year he died) a polemical one-man publication called Die Fackel (The Torch), was known for his withering attacks on everything from psychoanalysis to laissez faire economics. One of his targets was -- whoops! -- the Secession's own president, Gustav Klimt.
Kraus hated Klimt's voluptuous, fleshy allegory Philosophy: "Who is interested in how Klimt imagines philosophy?" he asked. "He ought to provide us with an allegory comprehensible to the philosophical minds of his own age." Ouch!
But actually, you know, in 1905 Klimt left the Vienna Secession due to "differences of opinion over artistic concepts". So perhaps they'll just let it go. I'm expecting some black looks from the glitter-sluts Klimt left in the stairwell, though.
Opening: Wednesday, November 28, 2007, 7pm
Momus, Performance, 8-9 p.m.
KORPYS/LÖFFLER
6 SESSIONS
ZBYNĚK BALADRÁN
--
SECESSION
Friedrichstrasse 12
A-1010 Wien
Tel +43 1 5875307 0
Fax +43 1 5875307 34
http://www.secession.at
It was therefore perhaps a little unsubtle of me to say, in the press release I provided to the Secession, that Click Opera is "a daily Kulturfeuilleton written somewhat in the manner of his hero Karl Kraus". Kraus, who singlehandedly produced (from 1899 to 1936, the year he died) a polemical one-man publication called Die Fackel (The Torch), was known for his withering attacks on everything from psychoanalysis to laissez faire economics. One of his targets was -- whoops! -- the Secession's own president, Gustav Klimt.
Kraus hated Klimt's voluptuous, fleshy allegory Philosophy: "Who is interested in how Klimt imagines philosophy?" he asked. "He ought to provide us with an allegory comprehensible to the philosophical minds of his own age." Ouch!
But actually, you know, in 1905 Klimt left the Vienna Secession due to "differences of opinion over artistic concepts". So perhaps they'll just let it go. I'm expecting some black looks from the glitter-sluts Klimt left in the stairwell, though.
Opening: Wednesday, November 28, 2007, 7pm
Momus, Performance, 8-9 p.m.
KORPYS/LÖFFLER
6 SESSIONS
ZBYNĚK BALADRÁN
--
SECESSION
Friedrichstrasse 12
A-1010 Wien
Tel +43 1 5875307 0
Fax +43 1 5875307 34
http://www.secession.at