Media Art Net | Beuys, Joseph: Felt TV: Shown in TV broadcast 'Identifications'

Joseph Beuys, «Felt TV» Shown in TV broadcast 'Identifications', 1970
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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 [more]

Categories: Action | Video

Keywords: Aggression

Relevant passages:

Rudolf Frieling «Form Follows Format Tensions, Museums, Media Technology, and Media Art»

Works by Joseph Beuys:

Beuys und Wolfgang Feelisch Felt TV (multiple) Intuition Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes, No No No No Green Party Land Conference Speech made during live satellite telecast of opening of documenta 6 Sun not Reagan and in us ... under us ... flooded Election Poster for the Green Party

Check as well:

Gerry Schum Gerry Schum «Identifications» Joseph Beuys «Filz-TV (Multiple)»

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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 boxing-gloves used later in the action lie at the ready beneath his chair.