Beuys / Paik FLUXUS Art Cover 2LP Mint SIGNED
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Beuys / Paik FLUXUS Art Cover 2LP Mint SIGNED!!!
Joseph Beuys & Nam June Paik
In Memoriam George Maciunas
Klavierduett
Fluxus-Soirée der Galerie René Block in der Aula der Staatlichen Kunstakademie Dusseldorf
Freitag, 7. Juli 1978, 20 Uhr
Live-recording of the Fluxus-Soirée in the auditorium of the Staatliche Kunstakademie Dusseldorf
2 LPs (3-sided), Edition Block No. EB 113/114, 1982
On auction here is an unplayed archive copy, AUTOGRAPHED by Joseph Beuys in pencil on the front of the sleeve.
The beautiful gatefold sleeve and both vinyls are in perfect condition.
In 1978 George Maciunas, founder and chairman of FLUXUS, died in New York at the age of 47. In invert of these numbers the duration of 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 Dusseldorf was determined by an alarm-clock, set for 9.14 pm.
(quoted from www.ubu.com)
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. The concert lasted 74 minutes – Maciunas died aged 47. 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.
(quoted from www.medienkunstnetz.de)
See also Broken Music p. 100
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236 (GS 5.0.3 (236))
