Anton Kaun | Carl F. Oesterhelt - Strunz! Enterprises

Metzger: Pioneers in Art and Science, directed by Ken McMullen. The title
is a playful metaphor of the powerful influence mass media propaganda
has upon the unconscious and the process of slipping in and out of consciousness,
through the control, indoctrination and the engineering of sentiment,
focusing upon how corporate culture and the media enforce an
abysmally narrow spectrum of unashamedly Capitalist ideals.
The audio track is a composite of collaged samples/fragments from an
ongoing personalised archive of found footage, audio excerpts from TV
programmes, adverts, pop music and cinema soundtracks. The audio
track has mixed audio qualities due to the nature of appropriating from
many different sources, both from digital and analogue consumer products.
My method of editing and use of appropriation is outlined below and refers
to William Burroughs technique of scrambling with Gustav Metzger’s 1959
and 1960 Manifesto: Auto-destructive Art, where he states “Amplified
sound of the auto-destructive process can be an element of the total conception”
and that “auto-destructive art is an attack on Capitalist values…”
In the introduction of the catalogue of my recent exhibition, Hoax!, Dr.
Wolfgang Fetz, attempts to explain my editing technique and use of appropriation,
he writes, “As a third attempt, and probably the most instructive