JOSEPH BEUYS - FILZ TV 1970 Fluxus, happening and performance art

Joseph Beuys
«Felt TV: Shown in TV broadcast 'Identifications'»
As a contribution to Gerry Schum's 'Identifications', Beuys adapted for television the 'Felt TV' action previously staged for a live audience at a Happening festival in Copenhagen in 1966. It was the only Beuys action executed specifically for the camera. It opens with Beuys seated in front of a TV set showing a programme which is invisible because the screen is covered by felt. The boxing-gloves used later in the action lie at the ready beneath his chair.
Beuys turns up the bottom left corner of the felt, revealing a glimpse of the faulty TV picture. The voice of a TV reporter, who is talking about current milk and meat prices, is still audible. Beuys declares he has 'undertaken a gradual elimination' by 'filtering away' the picture first while leaving the sound, 'but when the picture has gone, the sound becomes absurd.'
Joseph Beuys (German: 12 May 1921 - 23 January 1986) was a German Fluxus, happening, and performance artist as well as a sculptor, installation artist, graphic artist, art theorist, and pedagogue.
His extensive work is grounded in concepts of humanism, social philosophy and anthroposophy; it culminates in his "extended definition of art" and the idea of social sculpture as a gesamtkunstwerk, for which he claimed a creative, participatory role in shaping society and politics. His career was characterized by passionate and only rarely acrimonious open public debates on a very wide range of subjects including political, environmental, social and long term cultural trends. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential artists of the second half of the 20th century.

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Joseph beuys est atemporel. Il s'enfuit dès que l'on le voit, c'est vrai qu'après + de 100 000 ans de vies humaines sur ce support spatio-temporelle, la terre. Joseph beuys fut quelqu'un qui marqua l'histoire de l'art en premier et l'émotion de tous non pas dans un temps second mais direct. Comme le son d'un choc à sa rencontre. Un terrien bien curieux parmi les autres. L'humanité doit se souvenir ahhaha... Se souvenir, comment dirais-je ? De la Poétique c'est-à-dire de la vie elle même posant une trace matérielle et encore plus immatérielle sur cette même vie.

[@agathe_fqz]

Salut, est ce que tu pourrais m'éclairer sur le pourquoi il utilise une saucisse qu'il découpe ?

[@BjornMaria]

Hardcore will never die

[@thomashohlfeld]

Die Metaphorik der beuysschen Bildsprache. Ein weites unbeackertes Feld. Ran an die Arbeit!

[@udomatthiasdrums5322]

still love his work!!

[@tomassalazargonzalez810]

gracias por el registro, no lograba encontrarlo

[@christophhinsch]

Genius ♡

[@AdrianoAlvesnd]

Genius

[@danielwilkins7509]

This footahe? Would make a great music video, for a LEONARD COHEN song!:-). Keep up the good work!:-).

[@jeffblonder7292]

I hate the media too

[@kaleidoscopio5]

Sometimes I also want to punch myself watching tv 😂😂

[@beddyboy]

Me too.

[@beddyboy]

Are we weird? Hope not.

[@kaleidoscopio5]

We are the clevers one 😁

[@cathysawchuk204]

you should

[@wormswithteeth]

same

[@isolateddemon9438]

Fucking great

[@NuzulBilal]

Im here because fluxcup

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sama njirr

[@lugie69]

this is the weirdest fucking thing ive ever enjoyed

[@renascencaportuguesa]

só não entendi porque é que ele cortou o chouriço e encostou-o à parede

[@elixirteatrocolectivo]

Igual. No entiendo

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Porque Milton
Porque

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5:50 talking with the wall

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A state of flux

[@BizusCanadenses]

gente
o que foi isso

[@jules9266]

Spannend

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Eine süße Blutwurstinade

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I see

[@leniss]

so at the end they got married

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VHS CRT TV Art's!!!

[@beddyboy]

Wipe it off.

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ASCENDED

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o piraia é loko

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A caballo regalado..

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Pa q luego digan de los millennials

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Budur.