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Joseph Beuys Actions

 

BEUYS - Actions

In the actions by Joseph Beuys the transistoric character of the work becomes especially clear: FLUXUS. Beuys actions are very pictorial, drawn to build a new consciousness. The actions are also to be understood as concerts, as music, a sound for the soul.

 

1 Sibirische symphony 1st sentence{set}, Duesseldorf ,1963

2 Compositions for 2 musicians, Duesseldorf ,1963

3 Piano action, Wuppertal ,1963

4 Kukei, Akopee-no!, brown cross, fat corners, model fat corners, Aachen , 1964

5 THE BOSS- THE CHIEF- fluxus canto, Copenhagen and Berlin , 1964

6 The silence of Marcel Duchamp is overrated, Duesseldorf ,1964

7 And within us... among us... landunder, Wuppertal, 1965

8 How to explain the pictures to the dead hare, Duesseldorf in 1965

9 Infiltration Homogeneous for concert wing, the biggest composer of the present is the thalidomide baby, Duesseldorf ,1966

10 Felt-TV, Copenhagen , 1966

11 EURASIA, SYMPHONY SIBERIA in 1963, 32nd SET (EURASIA), FLUXUS, Copenhagen and Berlin ,1966

12 MANRESA, Duesseldorf in 1966

13 Mainstream, Fluxus, Darmstadt in 1967

14 EURASIASTICK, 82 min fluxorum organum, Vienna in 1967 and Antwerp in 1968

15 ö ö Program, Duesseldorf ,1967

16 Vacuum - Mass, simultaneous =ironbox, halved cross, contents: 20 kg of fat, 100 air pumps, Cologne ,1968

17 Hand Actions / corner action, Duesseldorf ,1968

18 I trie to release you (to make you ) Berlin , 1969

19... or should we change it? Mönchengladbach , 1969

20 Titus / Iphigenie, Frankfurt , 1969

21 Transsibirian Railway}, Humlebaek , 1970

22 Celtic (Kinloch Rannoch), Scottish Symphony, Edinburgh , 1970

23 Celtic + ~~~~, civil defence rooms, Basel , 1971

24 Friday´s Object -1a roasted fishbone{herringbones}, Duesseldorf , 1970

25 Dead Mouse Action /Isolation Unit , Duesseldorf , 1970

26 Actions in the moor, near Eindhoven ,1971

27 Vitex agnus castus, Naples , 1972

28 Dillinger , Chicago , 1974

29 I like America and America likes me, New York , 1974

30 Three of pot action, Edinburgh , 1974

31 Discussione con Beuys: Fondazione per la rinascita dell agricoltura, Pescara, Feb 1978

32 Call For Alternatives, Frankfurt Review, Saturday 23rd December, 1978

33 Every human beeing an artist, on the way to the figure of freedom of the social organism, Achberg, March 1978

34 In Memoriam George Maciunas, Duesseldorf ,1978

35 Coyote III , Tokyo 1984

36 Simultaneous Concert with Three Pianos, Hamburg 1985

 


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