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Kren offers a more visually descriptive development of a Muehl action. The images have been chosen to follow a more dramatic sequence, probably because the action itself contained a wide range of images and materials.

Explicit, scatological, visceral—expect these things and more from the Viennese Actionists: a group of Austrian performance artists that explore the transgressive boundaries of the human body. Filmmaker Kurt Kren captures an egg-fuelled “action” by artist Otto Mühl in all its sick, messy glory.