Blood orgies
Subtitle: Hermann Nitsch in America
By: edited and introduced by Aaron Levy ; contributions by Lorand Hegyi ... [et al.].
Contributors: Levy, Aaron.; Lorand, Hegyi.
Series: Contemporary artist series -- no. 4
Publisher: Slought Books; Slought Books, Philadelphia; Brand: Slought Books, Philadelphia
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
ISBN-13: 9780981540900
Subjects: Nitsch, Hermann, -- 1938- -- Criticism and interpretation; Performance art -- Austria
Notes: "Produced with the 2007-2008 RBSL Bergman Curatorial Seminar, University of Pennsylvania."

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Towards an extreme art / Aaron Levy; title: Nitsch's experiential aesthetic / Lorand Hegyi; title: On the aesthetics of the photography of actionism / Dieter Ronte; title: Redemption through blood / Osvaldo Romberg; title: "The abyss of the scream" : the music of Hermann Nitsch / Adrian Daub; title: Extraversions : an archaeology of blood and guts / Michøle Richman; title: The Grünewald of happenings" : on traumatic subjectivity / Susan Jarosi; title: Nitsch's chiasmus / Jean-Michel Rabaté; title: Photographic documentation of Das Orgien Mysterien Theater, 1962-2003 : manifestos and historical texts : selections from declarations and descriptions of the O.M. Theatre Project.