Beuys, Nam June Paik - In Memorian George Maciunas 2LP

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SHIPPING COST TO USA IS US$26.... EBAY WON'T LET ME KEY IN THE CORRECT AMOUNT. PLEASE BEAR THIS IN MIND!!!!! FREIGHT IS NOT $4

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Joseph Beuys and Nam June Paik - In Memoriam George Maciunas 2LP

3 Sided LP released on Block label, 1982

From liner notes: "In 1978 Geroge Maciunas, founder and chairman of Fluxus, died in New York at the age of 47. In invert of these numbers the duration the piano-duett, performed to his memory by Joseph Beuys and Nam June Paik was planned for 74 minutes. The end of this memorable evening at the Kunstakademie of Düsseldrof was determined by an alarm-clock, set for 9:14 pm."

The relationship of Beuys and Paik to Fluxus founder George Maciunas, who died in 1978, was friendly but occasionally tinged with scepticism – as Beuys demonstrated in his revision of Macunias' Fluxus manifesto. This tribute to Macunias was performed in the auditorium of the Kunstakademie, Düsseldorf, the place where Beuys in 1963 first appeared in Fluxus actions, and even played the same grand piano. Paik has been known to title himself the 'world's most famous bad pianist', and Beuys’ was no professional, either. Beuys gave the following account of their joint strategy: 'We don’t execute an action in which the musical instrument isn’t used, but one in which it is used really simply. We don’t agree beforehand what we’re going to do.' Paik had recently become Professor of Video at the Kunstakademie, Düsseldorf, an appointment that took him back to the city where in 1959 his first action music composition – the 'Hommage à John Cage' – was performed in the Galerie 22.

Comes with extensive liner notes.

Condition (Cover/Record): NM / NM

Gatefold sleeve with a number of photographs looks as new

Record has been played perhaps twice and is as new.

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AUSTRALIA : approx A$8

REST OF THE WORLD: approx US$26

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