Recorded in 2012, Musik der 135.Aktion Kuba captures the controversial performance from Herman Nitsch's Orgien Mysterien Theater (Orgies Mysteries Theatre) as part of the Havana Biennial art exhibition. For more than fifty years Nitsch has been an influential and striking figure of Austrian art - In his Orgien Mysterien Theater he uses actors, blood, animal bodies and entrails, fruits, symbolic crucifixion, music, processions and ritualistic gestures to enact a new form of Gesamtkunstwerk: pagan ceremonies that aim to a kind of collective catharsis. "Dionysos gegen den Gekreuzigten" (Dinoysus against Christ Crucified") was performed by 150 musicians and 30 actors, including the University’s Symphony Orchestra ISA and the artist himself, celebrating Afro-Cuban rituals and ceremonies.
“I want to make people more intensive. I try to show the people how it’s possible to live intensively”
Hermann Nitsch, Dark Mofo Festival 2017.
Music of the 135th action, 14. May 2012
"Die Geburt des Dionysus"
performed as part of XI Bienal de la Habana
at Campus of the Universidad Cubana de las Artes.Havana, Cuba
Music: Orquesta Sinfónica de la Universidad ISA,
of Lyceum Mozartiano de La Habana
150 musicians
1. A1 13:32
2. A2 06:16
3. A3 13:01
4. A4 05:39
5. A5 04:09
6. A6 08:44
7. B1 20:26
8. B2 16:48
9. B3 07:17
10. B4 04:05
11. B5 06:13
12. B6 06:50
13. B7 05:52
