Kristine Stiles on Tomas Schmit

Kristine Stiles has contributed one of the two major essays for the volume,Tomas Schmit: Werke, Texte, Dokumente/Works, Texts, Documents 1962-1970, just published in Berlin by n.b.k. along with an essay coauthored by the Romanian-born curator Marius Babias and the Hungarian curator Krisztina Hunya, Project Manager, for the 19th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art. This 566-page book is the first major publication on Schmit, a renowned German artist, who created over two hundred performative instructions that he compiled in Sanitas –200 Theater Pieces (1962). Schmit was loosely associated in the 1960s with Fluxus.