Hermann Nitsch’s AKTION 135 at the 2012 Havana Biennial

Not the faint hearted the performance by the controversial Austrian artist Hermann Nitsch and a group of students of the University of the Arts staged performance number 135 has got to win the award for the most shocking display of the 11th Havana Biennial. Brilliant in its execution this may not be everyone’s cup of tea but this was something to be seen up close and personal... The almost bucolic atmosphere of the campus of the Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA) in Havana witnessed on the evening of Monday