This is also evidenced in his actions performed together with VALIE EXPORT, which showed that feminist art can also have a male component. It is thanks to Weibel that one can say that in Austria conceptual art is more interested in language and politics than elsewhere. The philosophy of language propounded by the French poststructuralist philosophers found not just an interested recipient in Weibel, for he knew how to transform theory into artistic deeds and thereby to ignite the theory. He also further radicalized the Wiener Gruppe's use and critique of language when he said that he was less interested in the relations of the words to each other in the new genre of concrete poetry and far more in its relationship to social reality. During the scandalous action Art and Revolution at the University of Vienna in 1968, which became known as "Uni-Ferkelei" -the university filth -he performed alongside fellow artists Günter Brus, Otto Muehl, and Oswald Wiener, quite literally holding an inflammatory speech against the bigoted politics of a state that blatantly ignored the facts of history. In the 1960s, when social upheaval was accompanied by the radical politicization of art, Peter Weibel was already one of the leading and most courageous opponents of tradition and stuffed-up complacency.
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