Film Screening
Joseph Beuys: I Like America and America Likes Me

Fri, 08.10.2021
1:00 PM Goethe-Institut Irland

JOSEPH BEUYS: I LIKE AMERICA AND AMERICA LIKES ME

A film by Helmut Wietz, Camera: Helmut Wietz, 38 min, b/w, USA/Germany 1981, no dialogue, Production/Copyright: Galerie René Block, New York, and Helmut Wietz / VG Bild-Kunst 2021

Documented in this film is the performance "I Like America and America Likes Me" at Gallery René Block, New York from 23-25 May 1974.
Joseph Beuys, upon his arrival at John F. Kennedy Airport, is immediately wrapped in a felt cloth and driven to the gallery in an ambulance. There, in a cordoned off room, a coyote awaits him. Beuys lives with the coyote for several days and nights, observable at all times through a chain-link fence. In addition to the felt blanket, his props include a walking stick, a triangle, a flashlight, gloves, and 50 copies of the "Wall Street Journal" per day. After the performance, Beuys is transported back to the airport in the same way he arrived.

Followed by a talk by film curator Alice Butler
  
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Please note: Masks are required indoors in the Goethe-Institut Irland. Please bring one of the following documents required for admittance: proof of vaccination or proof of immunity or proof of a negative COVID-test performed no earlier than 48 hours prior to event.​​