Live at the Vienna Secession

[imomus]

Hello 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

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SECESSION
Friedrichstrasse 12
A-1010 Wien
Tel +43 1 5875307 0
Fax +43 1 5875307 34

http://www.secession.at

Comments

[niddrie-edge.livejournal.com]

Then again there is feuilleton (http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/).

[imomus.livejournal.com]

That's pretty good. Not as combative as Kraus, though.

[cap-scaleman.livejournal.com]

Isn't there a problem when you regard someone a little bit too much?

[microworlds.livejournal.com]

sexy Gustav Klimt

I'm starting to notice a pattern here...

CAN SOMEBODY SAY FABULOUUUUUS?

[microworlds.livejournal.com]

let´s rejoice with the boys in a gay waaaayy

[electricwitch.livejournal.com]

BUT BOWIE IS NOT GAY. I KNOW COS YOUTUBE COMMENTS SAID SO.

TIME TO BRING OUT THE BOWIE ICON I MADE A WHILE AGO

[microworlds.livejournal.com]

(http://tinypic.com)

Re: CAN SOMEBODY SAY FABULOUUUUUS?

[imomus.livejournal.com]

Bowie looking very Klimt-inspired in that photo!

Re: CAN SOMEBODY SAY FABULOUUUUUS?

[microworlds.livejournal.com]

Dare I say: sexy?

hhmm inspiration for teh pr0nz

[electricwitch.livejournal.com]

OH THAT´S GOOD.

Re: hhmm inspiration for teh pr0nz

[microworlds.livejournal.com]

LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL DID YOU SAVE THAT TO YOUR COMPUTER FOR FUTURE USE??

Momus, I can't believe that you have the gay! HOW DARE YOU!

the gay

[electricwitch.livejournal.com]

I did! my macro folder is a thing of beauty and comfort.

[fishwithissues.livejournal.com]

i like schiele. and kokoschka. and arthur schnitzler. and i took a class about fin-de-siecle vienna and it was--it was great.

[lord-whimsy.livejournal.com]

Look up Egon Freidell, if you haven't. Any man who politely warns passersby below him as he is leaping to his death from a window to escape the Gestapo gets high marks.

[lord-whimsy.livejournal.com]

I trust voluptuaries more than strident lackapisses.

[rearwindow.livejournal.com]

Hope my city is good to you!

[electricwitch.livejournal.com]

"I'm expecting some black looks from the glitter-sluts Klimt left in the stairwell, though."

Oh I don´t think you should worry, I´m not going to be there.

[buckminster.livejournal.com]

oh, hey, this will be a good excuse for me to check out the Secession. See ya!

[geeveecatullus.livejournal.com]

Damn wish I'd seen this earlier. That could have been fun.

[(Anonymous)]

forget kultur and send yer mum a sachertorte (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sachertorte) from vienna.

[(Anonymous)]

And eat some delicious Marillenknödel!

[(Anonymous)]

It is very difficult to imagine something that is less written in the style of Karl Kraus than this blog. Just using the words "Feuilleton" and "Kraus" in the same sentence is already so wrong.

der.

[akabe.livejournal.com]

it lives !