Beuys 100 - Film Screening 'I Like America and America Likes Me'

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<h2>Joseph Beuys: I Like America and America Likes Me</h2><aside>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</aside>Goethe-Institut Irland, 37 Merrion Square, Dublin 2 Friday, 8 October 2021, 1pm 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 will 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 ButlerPlease 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.​​Presented by the Goethe-Institut Irland and the Hugh Lane Gallery as part of the programme accompanying the Hugh Lane’s exhibition “Joseph Beuys - From the Secret Block to Rosc” (17 July 2021 – 9 January 2022)

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