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Sounds of Eurasia – Constructing a network through Beuys/voice mail
For Beuys EURASIA was an imaginary place, a fertile thought space, where the divide between east and west, between intuition and rationality and countless other formative binaries could be overcome.
For DJ Sniff, a Tokyo-based musician from LA, contemporary Eurasia is also a place at once real and imaginary. Invited by the Goethe-Institut in Tokyo to participate in the cross-disciplinary art project “Beuys on/off”, he took a close critical look at Beuys‘ utopian concept of EURASIA. Since the pandemic coincided with this invitation, he has been working from his home in Tokyo instead of travelling across the region. He’s been working with only voices, music, sounds and other material traces to capture a sense of who Beuys was, how his work is transformed over time and above all: what Eurasia is, what it might be, what it could be or become.
In the fourth episode of “Die Erde spricht / the Earth is speaking” DJ Sniff explores the sounds and ideas of Beuys as they survive on records in relation to his own music and the soundscapes of his everyday life. He takes records as objects and vehicles. As a point of departure for thinking about the music business and the business of making music. And for reflecting on both of these as social practices that bring people together across the world – even, or perhaps especially, during a pandemic.
For all information on the anniversary programme „beuys 2021. 100 years of joseph beuys“ visit: https://beuys2021.de/
die erde spricht | Der Podcast zu beuys 2021. 100 Jahre Joseph Beuys
Deutsch:
Wie wird Joseph Beuys im Jahr 2021 bewertet? Wie wird sein künstlerisches und politisches Erbe in unterschiedlichen Kulturräumen aufgenommen? Spielt er für die heutige Generation von Künstler:innen überhaupt eine Rolle? Diese Fragen werden in den verschiedenen Folgen des Podcasts »Die Erde spricht« adressiert und beantwortet; aus deutscher und internationaler Perspektive. Zehn Stimmen von namhaften Künstler:innen, Wissenschaftler:innen und Schriftsteller:innen aus Deutschland sowie Aktivist:innen, DJs, Künstler:innen aus 14 verschiedenen Ländern weltweit thematisieren die Person Beuys und vor allen Dingen auch sein Schaffen, sein künstlerisches Erbe.
Die Produktion des Podcasts ist eine Kooperation zwischen beuys2021 unter kuratorischer Leitung von Catherine Nichols (für die deutschen Folgen) und dem Goethe-Institut (für die internationalen Folgen). Weiterer Partner ist der WDR.
English:
How does one rate Joseph Beuys in 2021? What does the reception of his artistic and political legacy look like in different cultural environments? Does he play a role at all for the current generation of artists? Answers to these questions will be given in the different editions of the podcast »Die Erde spricht« (»The Earth is speaking«), both from a German and an international perspective. Ten voices by influential artists, scientists and authors from Germany, as well as activists, DJs and artists from 14 different countries are discussing the person Beuys and in particular his body of work and his artistic legacy.
The production of the podcast is a cooperation between beuys2021 curated by Catherine Nichols (for the German episodes) and Goethe-Institut (for the international episodes). Further partner is WDR.