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joseph beuys and science
lecture series
haus der universität at schadowplatz
12 april to 23 july 2021
ute klophaus: joseph beuys during the discussion at the opening of the exhibition »beuys und seine klasse« photo, b/w, baryta print, frankfurt am main, 1976
bpk / stiftung museum schloss moyland / ute klophaus / on loan from the ernst von siemens kunststiftung
ute klophaus: joseph beuys during the discussion at the opening of the exhibition »beuys und seine klasse« photo, b/w, baryta print, frankfurt am main, 1976
bpk / stiftung museum schloss moyland / ute klophaus / on loan from the ernst von siemens kunststiftung
»so art questions the process, art now asks the epistemological questions that science is not asking. i want to make that clear. and art comes to the conclusion that it has to represent that idea, even in its inception, as a sculptural process.« joseph beuys, 1970a
this lecture series brings together scholars and scientists from many fields with an interest in joseph beuys’s call to create the conditions for a new life that can sustain the kind of thinking that incorporates the principles of sculpture. beuys’s universal plea for a revolution of concepts will be critically examined through the prism of disciplines ranging from physics to poetry, from economics to the law.
directed by timo skrandies