Günter Brus: a walk through totality

This study focuses on examining a specific artwork of member the Austrian action group Viennese Actionism, Günter Brus through prism Trauma Studies. The research question how trauma World War II expressed itself in art encompasses focus three sub-areas based nature and definition following neurosis/psychosis: individual (e.g., childhood trauma), societal (a consequence WWII), return if it has not been consistently processed. experience WWII left traumas generation artists such as his bombing at an early age) that were individual, society-wide (the complicity whole society Nazi crimes Shoa), and/or caused by some recurring trauma. According to British theatrologist Patrick Duggan, level is doubled upon recurrence, which similar conclusion German researcher Gerald Schröder arrives when he writes about Wiederholungstrauma whole. When social traumatisation reaches borderline level, manifests various valves, including artistic ones. became materialisation repetition trauma, living reminder, literally walking streets Vienna during event Walk. introduces describes post-war artist framework Duggan's methodology coupled with trauma-related symptomatology.