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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
Dec 23, 2021 · The Kipper Kids were known for “performance art involving foodstuffs, firecrackers and a lot of whiskey,” the Los Angeles Times reported. Getty 14th February 1974: ‘The Kipper...
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Oct 14, 2023 · The two created the Kipper Kids in 1970, each using the stage name Harry Kipper. The Los Angeles Times described the duo’s work as “performance art involving foodstuffs, firecrackers...
May 28, 2018 · The Kipper Kids were the nexus of a collision of art, slapstick, music, performance and improvisation, often punctuated by seriously bent-outta-shape pop songs. One of their famous acts involved a boxer beating himself up. It was ritualistic violence . . . with as much adolescent humour (farting) as serious provocation.
Thus, from 1971, ‘The Kipper Kids’ were also known as ‘Harry and Harry Kipper.’ Von Haselberg and Routh, noted for their drastic, harshly loud, and often comic performance act, mostly performed in Europe from 1971 to 1975.
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]
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. Their work has the signature of organised chaos or, as Thorne puts it, “a highly ...
