Joseph Beuys: I Like America and America Likes Me

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
(c) Image courtesy Galerie René Block und Helmut Wietz 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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