Joseph Beuys
Hier Spricht Fluxus
Edition of 150 copies with double-sided A2 poster and inlay. Reissue of a Joseph Beuys Reel-to-Reel tape edition, originally published in 1969 in the Ung Dansk Kunst series (by Stig Brøgger). The Ung Dansk Kunst’s Tapeserie [Young Danish Art’s Tape Series] from 1969 is a series of 10 tape works, created by a central group of visual artists of the 1960es' experimental Danish art scene. The tape series is one of the earliest Danish examples of visual artists creating works of art in sound. Sound w…
Creamcheese Duesseldorf 1968
The experimental project Pissoff was founded in the late 60s by multimedia-artist Eberhard Kranemann and some friends who studied together at the Düsseldorf Academy Of Fine Arts. The chaotic, loud and soundwise undisciplined band took part in various events at this location and other places. Due to the intense fluctuation of band-members the performances by Pissoff were characterized by continously changing participants and variations of the involved equipment: cello, violin, clarinet, tenor sax…
Beuys Laughing
In early 1974 Joseph Beuys, Klaus Staeck and Gerhard Steidl sat in a Boeing 747 from New York to Düsseldorf, returning home after Beuys’ American tour. The trip had been a controversial success, and its every stage carefully documented by Staeck and Steidl in videos, photographs and audio their trusty Sony TC-50 cassette recorder was always at Beuys’ side during his lectures, conferences and workshops. To relieve the boredom of the flight, the three listened to some of the recordings and Beuys s…
Coyote III With Pianovariation 1984
Long deleted, last copies around: This is a simultaneous performance of "Coyote III" and "Pianovariation 1984". Recording of a performance at Seibu Museum of Art (Sôgetsu Hall), Tokyo, June 2nd 1984. Paste-on front cover with rubber stamped back cover. Includes double sided b&w insert. Blank white labels
Performance At The ICA London 1 Nov 1974
Recorded at The Institute of Contempary Arts (ICA) in London on 1 November 1974 - the first day of the exhibition "Art Into Society - Society Into Art". Legendary artist record, this is the 2nd pressing, and it comes with handmade insert
Ja Ja Ja Nee Nee Nee
bloody expensive and very rare LP, housed in a gorgeous gatefold sleeve with integrated 12-page booklet, full page b/w photographies. First issue of this imperative soundwork-multiple by Beuys. A recording of the Fluxus concert of the title, which took place at the Staatliche Kunstakademie Dusseldorf in 1968, and is based on a compositional idea by Henning Christiansen. One of only 500 examplarissued, numbered and stamped by the artist. One of Beuys� earliest multiples. Some wear age overall as …
Das Kapital Raum 1970-1977
A rare exhibition poster for this legendary sound installation hald at Ink gallery in Zurich, 1981, based on the same materials "Celtic Symphony", which he performed together with the Danish composer Henning Christiansen back in 1970. "Das Kapital" had already started at that time, some interesting information cna be found here "the acoustic system serves for the sound recording for example of the human tongue, for language, singing and other sounds and for the reproduction of the recorded sign…
Klavierduett: In memoriam George Maciunas
Original and very rare now, a double LP published by Edition Block, Germany. 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. New
Ja Ja Ja Ja Ja, Nee Nee Nee Nee Nee
This CD contains Joseph Beuys' sound work, A tape piece in which the above words are repeated on and on resulting in a hypnotising soundtrack, not entirely without tongue in cheek: with repetition of "Ja" (yes) and "Nee" (no), Beuys changes the intonation of the words to achieve a sense of intensity. Featuring Henning Christiansen, Recorded at Staatliche Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Dec. 14, 1968. CD in digipack with 32 paged booklet (in German).