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Beuys didn’t come up with the idea that everyone is an artist. He got there by experiencing his own personal transformation in a crisis, a process he felt was sculptural. That same sense of immediacy applies to his views of democracy. Instead of reading political theory he looked to the world around him. And what he saw made him look for examples of how to make democracy more democratic.
Beuys’ encounters and collaboration with people in the Italian Lotta continua movement gave him many concrete examples of what could be achieved if people worked to enact democracy in small reliable ways. Having access to the media was a key objective of the movement in Italy. In the early 1970s, Beuys witnessed the rise of the free radio movement, which followed not long after in Germany and elsewhere in the world, firsthand.
In this bonus feature episode of the series, written and produced by the artist, writer and radio specialist Anna Bromley, we travel from Germany to Israel, Italy, Hungary, South Africa and Turkey and hear from some of the key radio activists in the movement. Many of them look back on a long history in the movement. Even younger activists have strong sense of the history behind them.
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.