WIKIZEUM

2011

Boek; 31 p ill

Tent. Lodz, Muzeum Sztuki, 14-10-2011, 06-11-2011. - WIKIzeum is an educational-artistic project of the Economy of Gift series. History behind the event has its roots in August 1981, in the "carnival of Solidarity", when Joseph Beuys arrived at Muzeum Sztuki in Lódz. He donates a wooden crate containing a collection of almost 300 works covering 30 years of creative activities. The visit, unpacking the collection and commenting on it is given a status of an artistic action Polentransport 1981 by Beuys himself. Nothing was coincidental. The year 1981 was the 50th anniversary of founding Muzeum Sztuki in Lódz: the first European museum of avant-garde art and the only "open" museum behind the Iron Curtain.. Polentransport 1981 is also a transport of an idea, a vehicle of transforming a man and social space, crucial to Beuys. The artist claimed that everything that transformed reality was sculpture. In his Theory of Social Sculpture each man is an artist because of the creative potential he/she holds. Accumulation of the energy of particular people leads to transformation of consciousness of whole societies outside the system of government, political parties by means of direct democracy. According to Beuys, this conception was embodied by the solidarity movement. In Polentransport 1981 everything becomes a unity: art, ethics and politics. WIKIzeum will present the activities of the artist - his artistic-social utopias - as completed. It will demonstrate that we are the beneficiaries of Beuys' ideas from 30-40 years ago (although perhaps not in all of its aspects); beneficiaries unaware of the benefit. The project will deal with three threads in the artist's activities: the eco-humanitarian thread, social sculpture thread and the free university thread

Located in: BEUYS, JOSEPH

ISBN: 9788387937959

VUBIS: 2:87659