Export, Valie and Monsti Wiener (i.e. Ingrid Wiener) as well as Michael Schwabe (music).

[FEMINIST ART AND VIENNESE ACTIONISM] Wahre Freundschaft [True friendship]. Original vinyl record in pictorial sleeve. – With two signed, handwritten dedications.

Berlin: Heimproduktion, and Köln, Electrola, 1978. Vinyl record in original pictorial record sleeve measuring 31 × 31.4 cm. Cover with signed dedication: "(heart symbol)lich Valie Export + M. Wiener. Berlin 26.5.79", and record label also with signed dedication: “Mike Steiner von Monsti Wiener. Valie Export 26.5.79”, the dedication signed by both probably in Wiener's hand. Sleeve creased; edges rubbed; small edge defect; the record with a few superficial scratches. Item #55196

The album "Wahre Freundschaft" is the first of two records that Valie Export and Monsti Wiener produced together. The recordings were made in 1978 in Wiener's apartment in Berlin-Kreuzberg and were released in an edition of 1000 copies. On the record, the two Viennese performance artists sing old German and Austrian folk songs and popular classical songs such as “Das Wandern ist des Müllers Lust” (Franz Schubert) and avant-garde pieces by Gerhard Rühm and Konrad Bayer, for example, as well as numerous obscene, banal, and silly pop songs. The performances are repeatedly interrupted by fits of laughter from the two interpreters, who barely hit a note correctly and fail in their attempt to sing the canon “Frère Jacques”. (Cf. Wolfgang Müller, Subkultur Westberlin 1979-1989, Hamburg 2014, p. 69f.)

Ingrid Wiener and Valie Export had previously worked together with Dieter Roth on a longer project, which at first glance seems atypical of the neo-avant-garde. On the initiative of Wiener, who studied textile design in the first half of the 1960s, the three artists created a series of tapestries, although Valie Export withdrew from the project. The production of the tapestries was a tedious, very time-consuming practice; it could sometimes take years to produce one carpet. However, Dieter Roth maintained his spontaneous approach in this collaboration. For the first tapestry in which Export was involved, Roth supplied a soiled linen napkin from a meal at the Italian restaurant chain “Bertorelli”. He scribbled three chunky cats in red pencil on the grease-stained machine-made napkin. In the bottom right-hand corner of the tapestry, Valie Export wove Roth's signature and the year the collaboration began, 1974, as well as her own logo signet at the top right-hand edge, next to the city name Berlin and the end year 1976. At the top left, Wiener wove her signature in small letters. The record offered here was thus created in the context of this collaboration. (Caroline Lillian Schopp: Feminist In-Action. Ingrid Wiener's Tapestry Collaborations, in: FKW: Zeitschrift für Geschlechterforschung und visuelle Kultur. No. 68, October 31, 2020, p 52ff.)

As of June 2025, no copies located in North American institutions.

Price: €1,250.00

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