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 boxinggloves 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 Joseph Beuys (German: 12 May 1921 23 January 1986) w
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