Been reading this fantastic little book which is, more or less, a compendium to Branden Joseph's exhaustive tome Beyond the Dream Syndicate: Tony Conrad and the Arts After Cage. There is an amazing amount of information tucked into this pocket-sized publication. Much attention is paid to the various readings of formalist or structuralist cinema in Europe at the time including those of Wilhelm and Birgit Hein and Malcolm Le Grice along with counter perspectives from Lis Rhodes and Paul Arthur. Otto Muehl and the Viennese Actionists are prominently featured as well. By far this is one of the most intriguing and thoughtful considerations of avant-garde cinema I've read in quite a while (Duncan Reekie's Subversion is also in that category). The Roh and the Cooked also includes Conrad's essay "The Eye and the Asshole: Otto Muehl and the Extremes of Vienna 196-" which was originally printed in Nick Zedd's Underground Film Bulletin (1986).
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