 From 1966 on, he was involved with the short-lived Viennese Actionism movement.Being very intrigued by object and action art from the start, Attersee attempted to combine music, speech, photo and video art with the basic form to create a new form of total artwork (also known by the German term Gesamtkunstwerk) like object inventions such as the ""Speisekugel"" ("food sphere"), the ""Speiseblau"" ("food blue"), the ""Prothesenalphabet"" ("prosthetical alphabet"), the ""Speicheltönung"" ("saliva tinge" or "saliva hue"), the female vagina as an object of art, as well as the self-coined "Attersteck".In later years, the quintessence of his work shall be characterized by subjects like sexuality and natural studies.