This expanded version of a talk given by Gustav Metzger at the
Architectural Association in 1965 is one of the original 200 that
were published. At the talk Metzger showed a film on Brownian
motion to illustrate one of his points about the link between art
and science, but - according to a book published by Coracle in 1996
- the demonstration of auto-destructive art that he had planned was
abandoned and led to an 'extreme and controversial happening'. I'd
like to know more about that. Metzger spoke of our 'self-destroying
society', he criticised the capitalist system and the system of
art dealing, and he pointed out how artists are sensitive to the
vulnerability of their work to annihilation. It seems to me that he
shares some of the concerns of Michael Landy.
