Daniel Grúň: Visual Music as a Field of Cultural Transfer in the 1970s

Session 3 - Hubs of Transfer Chair: Pavlína Morganová Abstract The paper will deal with one of the key figures in Czechoslovak intermedia art, Milan Adamčiak. The principles of his work are linked to a participatory and cross-disciplinary approach to art. First, there is the multidimensional model of the artistic distribution of ideas that proceeds in several and often mutually conflicting spheres of application under the conditions of marginal existence. Second, Adamčiak created many of his works as paraphrases or pastiches of the work of world-renowned artists or homages to his artistic colleagues. For Adamčiak, hommage was a conscious principle: he appropriated and adapted, polemicized, paraphrased, and recontextualized to destabilize the modernist notion of originality and authorship. In 1969, Milan Adamčiak proclaimed the fusion of poetry, music, and action art, spheres that remained an essential aspect of his lifelong work. How he absorbed, mixed, and transform