cahiers otto muehl
The publication of the Cahiers Otto Muehl combines studies and research focused on a particular Materialaktion or a set of actions, or developed based on a question, both practical and theoretical, transversal to the work.
But the questions which come today from the large and multifaceted work of the artist give opportunities to think or re-think both our present and this œuvre, as well as wider the philosophical approaches of art and politics. In this way, the meaning of the relationship between life and art wouldn’t be obviousness.
The research work consisting of the artist’s archives is quite necessary, more than fifty years after the first Materialaktionen, if we wish to change the positions or opinions that have been authoritative since then. This research gives new limits, and new challenges, to the thinking of this work, from a contemporary perspective.
There is no doubt that the multiplication of approaches, whether based on Muehl’s work or those of other artists, will give rise to completely new paths.