As a test for her upcoming fire performance in Duisburg (no 193), Ingeborg Lüscher inflames a polystyrene column. The sculpture almost burns down, before the fire is extinguished.

IL192

 

Fire Performance (Test), 1971

Feueraktion (Probe), 1971

 

Polystyrene column

300 x 90 x 90 cm

 

Destroyed during the test

for no 193

 

Catalogues

Wiesbaden 1993, p 89 (ill)

 

Texts

Dienst 1971

 

Photography

Alberto Flammer

 

See no 191 and 193

 

A documentation of the performance is displayed 1971 at PRO ART ’71 Duisburg in the booth of Galleria Flaviana  Lugano and Ingo Kümmel Köln. See installation no 234