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Jimmie Durham - Der Verführer und der Steinerne Gast [The Libertine and the Stone Guest]
03 March 1996 - 30 April 1996

Wittgenstein House, Vienna

"Ulli Lindmayr invited me to do something in the house that Wittgenstein had designed and built for his sister in Vienna. As an architect Wittgenstein was a disciple of Adolf Loos, only more severe, of course. The house is beautiful, every detail controlled so much that it gives an impression like that of a drunken man pretending to be sober. A crazy house pretending to be not crazy.

It seemed a perfect place to continue the attack on architecture I’d started with the show at Galerie Micheline Szwajcer. There was a small book, published only in German, that I saw as part of the project. I had done a similar thing at a show in Exit Art in New York in 1989, with a book as part of the exhibit." [full text here]

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