Henning Christiansen was an artist, composer and Fluxist. From the 1960s until his death in 2008 he created visual art, actions and musical compositions.
\nHe was part of the Experimental Art School (Eks- skolen), and throughout his life was one of the few Danish members of the worldwide Fluxus movement. Henning Christiansen was one of a kind who often created his works collectively with others. He had a lifelong collaboration with the artist Bj\u00f8rn N\u00f8rgaard as well as with the almost mythical German artist Joseph Beuys. Together they created performative actions that have gone down in the history of art as important contributions to the practice of performance art.
\n\u201cYou have to listen to nature,\u201d said Henning Christiansen, and painted one of his ears green. Just as he painted stones and violins green, created hammer mu- sic and invented the concept Music als gr\u00fcn (Music as green). He lived and worked on the island of M\u00f8n \u2013 with an open phone line to the rest of the world.
\nIn his music he sought clarity and purity, and in the 1960s he ushered in the musical tendency New Simplicity with his composition “Perceptive Constructions”.<\/p>\n
This website has been underway for 23 years and represents over 20,000 documents, photos, digitization of reel tapes and cassette tapes as well as DAT tapes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"