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Contemporary artists. Years active. 1971–1982, 2003. The Kipper Kids were a duo composed of Martin Rochus Sebastian von Haselberg (born 20 January 1949) and Brian Routh (1948–2018), two artists known for the extreme and often comedic performance art they made together in the 1970s and after.
- 1971–1982, 2003
May 28, 2018 · The Kipper Kids were a pair of performers who combined slapstick, violence, improvisation and pop songs in their shows. They opened for the Rolling Stones and Public Image Ltd, and were married to Bette Midler and Karen Finley.
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After inventing the character of Harry Kipper with Martin Von Haselberg on an acid trip in Frankfurt, they developed the iconic Kipper Kids. Routh embarked on solo work primarily in the mid-1970s. Von Haselberg and Routh reunited in 1977 to appear as the Kipper Kids in a film by Richard Elfman called Forbidden Zone , which was released in 1982. [7]
- Performance artist, sound artist
- 1972–2018
The performance art duo Kipper Kids was a collaborative project by Brian Routh (1948-2018, England) and Martin von Haselberg (b. 1949, Argentina) active from approximately 1971 to 1982. Routh and von Haselberg met at East 15 Acting School in London, England, in 1970.
Information. Resources. The Kipper Kids (Brian Routh and Martin von Haselberg) Up Yer Bum was performed by The Kipper Kids at the Acme Gallery, London in 1979. Steve Thorne gives a vivid description in a review published in the first ever Performance Magazine in June of that year.
