Aktion 20,000 km, 1970
Collection of materials: 2 original vintage silver gelatin prints for the 20,000 KM campaign by Thomas Luttge, verso with photographer’s stamp and campaign stamp; poster for first film screening of “Aktion 20,000 KM”; flyer for “Aktion 20,000 KM,” backside describes the action and lists the daily routes; “Action 20,000 KM,” 5 leaves in original portfolio. All first edition. Condition: Poster has small hole in a crease and a small tear, toning and soil and is missing the red sticker announcing the date and time of the film. Variable sizes.
HAS002
$ 500.00
For 20 days in 1970 Ha Schult got behind the wheel of a Citroen Diane and drove 20,000 kilometers on German roads, once every day from Munich to Hamburg and back. Throughout the trip Schult recorded his thoughts and experiences on tape, and photographed the people and things he saw on the way. At each stop he sold his photographs, used maps, tapes and spare bits of car. The purpose of the “HA Schult Rally,” a dangerous event even for the most seasoned driver, was to “make stress situations, consumption situations and movement situations visible.”
Ha Schult is a German installation, happening and conceptual artist known primarily for his object and performance art. Schult, calls himself a “doer,” in that his interest is centered only on the non-repeatable process of doing. For Schult, “art is life.” Incorporating the car in many of his performances, Schult sees it both as a mechanism designed to protect as well as one to cause great harm. It can be used as a means to escape the world as well as an instrument to conquer it. ”