Question
During this city’s 1968 “university obscenity,” artists broke into a lecture hall and covered themselves with all sorts of bodily fluids while singing the national anthem. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this city near Otto Muehl’s far-left commune AAO, where he abused minors. In the 1960s, this city was home to a group of violent “actionist” performance artists.
ANSWER: Vienna [or Wien; or Wean; accept Friedrichshof, the site of the commune]
[10e] Viennese Actionists also reenacted this religious scene with a literal lamb. The National Endowment of the Arts sponsored Andres Serrano’s provocative photograph of an icon of this scene submerged in his urine.
ANSWER: the crucifixion of Jesus Christ [or answers indicating the death of Jesus Christ; prompt on Piss Christ] (The Actionist performance was called Blood Organ.)
[10m] The Actionists collaborated with members of this movement in a 1966 Destruction in Art Symposium. George Maciunas coined its name as an analogy to the artist’s fluid discharge.
ANSWER: Fluxus (from the Latin for “flowing”, like in the sense of diarrhea)
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Summary
| 2023 BHSU @ Berkeley | 03/18/2023 | Y | 3 | 23.33 | 100% | 67% | 67% |
| 2023 BHSU @ Maryland | 03/11/2023 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| 2023 BHSU @ Northwestern | 02/25/2023 | Y | 6 | 18.33 | 100% | 50% | 33% |
| 2023 BHSU @ Waterloo | 04/15/2023 | Y | 3 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2023 BHSU @ Yale | 04/08/2023 | Y | 3 | 23.33 | 100% | 100% | 33% |
Data
| UG Championship Players (and Mazin) | Columbia B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Olmo (Bonus) Bagelry | nats is supposed to mean you all have gone soft | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| meet the new weird, same as the old weird | Watching Arthur Delot-Vilain at Chicago Open Made Me Like French People Again | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |