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Radical self-dramatisation – The performance icon Marina Abramović
The body became her stage. Whether she was carving a star into her belly or working her back with a whip, the Serbian performance artist is celebrated almost like a Hollywood star for her extreme explorations of body and soul. In New York’s MoMa, 700,000 people queued up to be able to look the artist…
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Global – Local / Do The Winners Take It All ?
Thanks to the new media, we have all long since shared a global perspective and can only escape this way of looking at things with great effort. This is evident in relation to all relevant areas of life. Against this backdrop, artists in particular are now increasingly faced with the question of how they deal…
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Materiality, Embodiment and Affordance
A new publication by Hans Dieter Huber: Materiality, Embodiment and Affordance in Paul Graham’s ‚a shimmer of possibility‘. In: ART STYLE. Art & Culture International Magazine, Vol. 4, Issue 7, March 2021 (Special Issue on the Material Image. Affordances as a New Approach to Visual Culture Studies), p. 135-157 In the text, the question of…
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Bad Beuys, Good Beuys
Bad Beuys, Good Beuys. SWR 2, Journal am Mittag.Das Magazin für Kultur und Gesellschaft. 23.6.2021. Doris Maull spricht mit Prof. Dr. Hans Dieter Huber über die nationalsozialistische Vergangenheit und den antidemokratischen Rechtskonservatismus von Joseph Beuys. https://www.swr.de/swr2/leben-und-gesellschaft/kuenstler-schamane-revolutionaer-wer-war-joseph-beuys-swr2-forum-2021-03-26-100.html (Bitte auf der Seite ganz nach unten scrollen)
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Filz, Fett und Volkstümelei – Was bleibt von Beuys?
Filz, Fett und Volkstümelei – Was bleibt von Beuys? hr2 Der Tag, 12.Mai 2021, 18.05h -19.00h. Zu Lebzeiten hat Joseph Beuys die künstlerischen Diskussionen bestimmt. “Jeder Mensch ist ein Künstler” wurde zu seinem wichtigsten Zitat. Kunst für alle und von allen, Kunst aus einer freien, demokratischen Gesellschaft heraus, das war der Ansporn für sein Schaffen. Zu seinem…
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Künstler, Schamane, Revolutionär – Wer war Joseph Beuys?
Künstler, Schamane, Revolutionär – Wer war Joseph Beuys? SWR 2 Forum, 26. März. 2021 und 11. Mai 2021. Die Fettecke, der Friedenshase, die Honigpumpe: Mit ikonischen Werken ist Joseph Beuys in die Kunstgeschichte eingegangen. Zu seinem 100. Geburtstag ziehen neue Bücher und Ausstellungen Bilanz. Wie hat Beuys die Kunst verändert? Susanne Kaufmann diskutiert mit Dr. Ina Conzen, Kuratorin…
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Non-Intentional Prints
For the artist’s magazine Lowland, Issue #6, Autumn 2020, Hans-Dieter Huber produced three postcards of his new non-intentional prints made in Berlin, each of which was enclosed with a copy of the magazine as a random insert.
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It’s night time in the big city. The Pictures of Goda Plaum
The artist and image scientist Goda Plaum studied fine arts and art education at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg and philosophy at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. She is both an artist and a doctoral researcher. In an article for her first artist’s catalogue on the occasion of several exhibitions, Hans-Dieter Huber writes about…
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Camille Graeser – refugee or homecomer?
In 2015, Hans-Dieter Huber discovered a small agenda from 1933 in the archives of the Camille Graeser Archive, Zurich, in which Camille Graeser recorded his escape from Stuttgart to Switzerland. He noted the people he met in Stuttgart and Zurich, the places where he stayed and the political and economic contexts. The notebook is unique…