die erde spricht beuys2021

In this 25th and final episode of “Die Erde spricht / The Earth is Speaking” we listen to Irish artists Maud Cotter and John Carson reflect on their experiences of having attended Joseph Beuys’ blackboard lectures in Cork and Belfast in 1974. They do so in the context of a current exhibition at Hugh Lane Gallery in Dublin titled “Joseph Beuys: From the Secret Block to Rosc” which reflects on Beuys’ relationship to Ireland. John Carson joins long-time friend and fellow artist Sean Lynch, while Maud Cotter joins Logan Sisley, Acting Head of Collections at Hugh Lane Gallery, in conversation. Together they consider the effects that the mythic and monumental figure of Beuys had – and didn’t have – on young artists studying across Ireland in 1974.

As part of the celebration of the centenary of the birth of Joseph Beuys, Goethe-Institut Irland and Hugh Lane Gallery have collaborated on an ongoing programme of talks, screenings and events.

“The Irish Blackboards: Reflections on Joseph Beuys’ 1974 Visit to Ireland“ podcast was produced and edited by Kimberly Griffith Walsh as part of the Hugh Lane Gallery’s Education programme 2021. www.hughlane.ie

In this episode Kuala Lumpur-based conceptual, installation and performance artist Sau Bin Yap and Sound Engineer Chris Pereira take us to Sabah on the island of Borneo where they talk to the local artist collective Pangrok Sulab. Their mission is to empower rural communities and their marginalised original art highlighting issues like deforestation, land ownership, poverty, education and cultural identity.

In dieser Folge von „Die Erde spricht“ reflektiert die Berliner Sozialwissenschaftlerin und Umweltaktivistin Imeh Ituen einen Aspekt von Beuys’ Praxis, der einer kritischen Betrachtung bedarf: die Reproduktion alter Denkmuster und Hierarchien, die allen möglichen Arten von Ungerechtigkeit zugrunde liegen. Von Rassismus bis Sexismus, von Ableismus bis Klimaungerechtigkeit. Dazu spricht sie mit Dr. Emilia Roig. In deren Anfang 2021 erschienenem Buch „WHY WE MATTER – das Ende der Unterdrückung“ reflektiert die Politikwissenschaftlerin, Autorin und Aktivistin darüber, wie es uns gelingen kann, Hierarchien zu erkennen und abzubauen.

Are social sculptures vulnerable to the crisis of truth and to the current lack of trust in institutions? Is social sculpture as subject to transformation as any other art form? Vivian Caccuri, Rio de Janeiro-based sound artist, has composed a sound piece for this episode that explores these questions in conversation with curators Jochen Volz and Thiago de Paula, philosopher Rodrigo Nunes and artist Cibelle. Combined with her own musical and sound compositions, Vivian Caccuri offers a dense take on the subject.

Rodrigo Nunes is professor of modern and contemporary philosophy at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Brazil. He is the author of Organisation of the Organisationless: Collective Action After Networks and of numerous articles in publications such as Les Temps Modernes, Radical Philosophy, South Atlantic Quarterly, Jacobin, Al Jazeera and The Guardian.

Cibelle (Cibelle Cavalli Bastos) is a Brazilian visual artist and musician based in London, Berlin and São Paulo. She graduated from the Royal College of Art in London, has released four music albums and has performed and presented work in venues such as Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin, Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid, ICA London, and Carnegie Hall in New York.

Thiago de Paula Souza (Taboão da Serra, SP), is a curator and researcher graduated in Social Sciences. He is currently a member of the curatorial team of the 3rd edition of Frestas – Sorocaba Arts Triennale, organized by SESC – SP. He participated in the Propositions for Non-Fascist-Living program, organized by BAK in Utrecht, where he curated Tony Cokes: To Live as Equals.

Jochen Volz is the General Director of Pinacoteca de São Paulo and the curator of the Brazilian Pavilion at the 57th Biennale di Venezia (2017). He was the chief curator of the 32nd Bienal de São Paulo (2016). He was Head of Programmes at the Serpentine Galleries in London and a curator at the Instituto Inhotim, Minas Gerais, where he has also served as General Director and Artistic Director.

In this episode of “Die Erde spricht / The Earth is Speaking” we experience “an endeavour in deflection”. Having been denied the performance rights of Joseph Beuys’s performance “Ja, ja, ja, ne, ne, ne”, Andrew Stock and Seth Brodsky developed their own strategy to solve the deadlock situation with the Beuys Trust: “Small Talk”. Under this title the Chicago-based artist and musician Andrew Stock and the professor of Music at the Chicago University Seth Brodsky watch Beuys’s famous 1969 video “Soziale Plastik” by Lutz Mommartz. They start musing on ideas of persona, charisma, recognition, and hope, and a rambling conversation begins that spans from the broader logic of European self-definition, geopolitics and colonialism to concepts of autonomy and subjectivity.

Watch “Soziale Plastik” (1969) here: https://youtu.be/A8nypxGtkKo; listen to “Ja, ja, ja, ja, ne, ne, ne, ne” (1968) here: https://youtu.be/py_uEHL-la4

From April to September 2021 the Goethe-Institut in Cyprus invited various Cypriot artists to a series of lectures, film screenings and gatherings. The title: „Social Sculptures“. With Joeseph Beuys’s artistic practice as a starting point, the focus was on social and political problems that exist locally in Cyprus – and on the artistic practices of the participants in dealing with them. In this episode by the curator of the workshop Marina Christodoulidou and the musician Emiddio Vasquez you will experience moments, discussions and performative snapshots from the workshop series.