Felt: Fluxus, Joseph Beuys, and the Dalai Lama by Chris Thompson

Felt: Fluxus, Joseph Beuys, and the Dalai Lama by Chris Thompson

Author:Chris Thompson
Language: zh
Format: mobi, azw3
Published: 2011-02-23T18:42:00+00:00


Tempa Tsering presents Beuys with the Buddha statue, with Jacinto Molina looking on. Photograph by Cathrien van Ommen. Reproduced by permission of Cathrien van Ommen.

BONN, WEST GERMANY, OCTOBER 27, 1982 (3:00 P.M.)

In Jean-Paul Sartre's Nausea, at 3:00 P.m. one bleak January day, narra- torAntoine Roquentin notes,"Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do. An odd moment in the afternoon. Today," he laments, "it is intolerable "59

It must have been nearly three o'clock when Beuys was given the statue. Someone, but not he, requested permission for the entire group of artists and friends that had gathered to come to the reception as well. So with the prospect of a collective meeting with the Dalai Lama still dangling, the afternoon continued, and the oddness of the three o'clock moment became protracted as the time crept up to four and then five o'clock. Even then it still seemed early enough to salvage Eurasia.



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