Title
Joseph Beuys' public dialogue
1974
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Details
- Date
- 1974
- Media category
- Time-based art
- Materials used
- digital tape (betacam) shown as single channel digital video, black and white, sound
- Dimensions
- duration: 02:00:15 hr; aspect ratio: 4:3
- Credit
- Mervyn Horton Bequest Fund 2007
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 310.2007
- Copyright
- © Estate of Joseph Beuys/VG Bild-Kunst. Copyright Agency © Estate of William Sharp
- Artist information
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William Sharp
Works in the collection
- Artist information
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Joseph Beuys
Works in the collection
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About
Producer: Willoughby Sharp.
Camera: Andy Mann.
Shot at the New School for Social Research, New York, 11 January 1974In this dialogue between the audience and Beuys, recorded at the New School for Social Research in New York, the artist presents his theories of art and social sculpture, filling three huge blackboards with drawings, only to wipe them out again in the end. Audience members include Claes Oldenburg and Al Hansen. The evident tension in the audience gives some indication of the sharply divided response to Beuys' project at the time. The dialogue was Beuys' first ever public event in the United States.
(Electronic Arts Intermix, http://www.eai.org accessed 7/9/11) -
Exhibition history
Shown in 1 exhibition
2008 Biennale of Sydney: revolutions-forms that turn, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 18 Jun 2008–07 Sep 2008
