“In a certain sense, I never left Actionism as I understood it to this very day. Today, I work in “sittings” that are very similar to the course of the actions. Only the stage has changed on which the presentation takes place.”

— Günter Brus

Source: Nervous Stillness on the Horizon (2006), P. 264 (2003)

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