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Joseph Beuys Organisations

Organisations created by  Beuys

Beuys gave suggestions for the reorganisation of the cultural and social life as well as the economy.

With his > Free International University <( FIU) he wanted to create the culture of the next century. Since he saw the contemporaries as. " ... more and more alienates from their life, from their work, from their inwardness, from their creativity. " ( Beuys in the conversation with Louwrin Wijers, Ddorf, 3rd June, 1980 ) and at an other place in the conversation: " That is in the workplaces in the hospital, in the industry, with the railway, on the university, this a new creativity concept would have to be there, so to speak which has, however, the consequence that one understands this system. This is the anthropological art concept to say also entitled: > Every person is an artist <

 

From this beginning Beuys founded different study groups:

 

 

• * 21st June, 1967 - foundation of the >GERMAN STUDENT PARTY <in the Staatl. Academy of arts Duesseldorf together with his pupil and Asta speaker Johannes Stüttgen and Fluxus fellow combatant Bazon Brock as a counterdraft to the SDS (speaker{announcer} Rudi Dutschke)

   

   

• * 2nd March, 1970 - foundation of the >ORGANISATION OF THE NON-VOTERS< in Duesseldorf

   

   

• * 1st June, 1971 - foundation of the >ORGANISATION FUR DIRECT DEMOCRACY BY PLEBISCITE< and equipment{institution} of public " information and Organisatlonsbüros for direct{straight} democracy " in Duesseldorf Andreasstrasse 25

   

   

• * 30th June - 8th October, 1972 - Documenta 5 in Kassel: Installation of the office of the

  >ORGANISATION FUR DIRECT DEMOCRACY BY PLEBISCITE<

  and 100-days presence of Joseph Beuys in this office at the Museum Fridericianum

   

• * 24th June - 2nd October, 1977 - Documenta 6 in Kassel: >Honey pump in the workplace < and 100-days seminar of her

  FREE INTERNATIONALLY UNIVERSITY (FIU)

  in the museum of Fridericianum under the direction of Joseph Beuys

   

• * 1st November, 1980 - opening of the agency of the FREE INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY (FIU) in the studio of Joseph Beuys, "space{room} 3", Staatl. Academy of arts Duesseldorf

   

• * In 1982 - in 1987 - Documenta 7 to Documenta 8 at Kassel:

  Tree office Kassel FIU,

  for the realisation of the project Joseph Beuys >7000 oaks "<

   

• * In 1983 - in 1984 - preparation{prearrangement} and project description of the action

  " GESAMTKUNSTWERK ` Free and Hanseatic town of Hamburg ",

  Execution was rejected by the Hamburg Senate

   

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  Literature: Foundation Talks/ Stiftungsgespräche - Der erweiterte Kunstbegriff und Joseph Beuys`Idee der Stiftung, Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung e.V. ,1990

  Link: http://www.beuys.org

  FIU- Freie Internationale Universität
  

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