In this essay, Philip Wincolmlee Barnes peers into the artifacts and records of the artist Rudolf Schwarzkogler, of the notorious Vienna Actionists. While Schwarzkogler's peers have enjoyed longer, more prominent careers, Schwarzkogler's life is shrouded in mystery and obscurity, fueling rumors about his suicide, and creating a powerful discourse circulating around his lack of recorded history. Barnes' intimate biography of this legendary performance artist is an attempt to reconstruct Schwarzkolger from the absence and obscurity that are his defining features. The Mind Museum: Rudolf Schwarzkogler and the Vienna Actionists

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