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the programme
»Making Waves«: a celebration to mark the 100th birthday of Joseph Beuys and to kick off »beuysradio«.
The 24-hour programme at once celebrates and examines the life and legacy of this pivotal artist: 100 voices
from all over the world explore the artist's significance for the present in interviews and short statements.
Rare audio documents offer an insight into his controversial understanding of art and history and convey the
mood of the era in which Beuys became Beuys. Two podcasts examine the political and social meaning of
myths in Beuys’ work and the democratic potential of free radio from South Africa to Tel Aviv to Halle. At the
heart of »Making Waves« is the music that Beuys listened to, made, shaped and continues to inspire today.
12 May 20:00–24:00 h
1. Beuys and his old hat [1980] [in German] [6:32]
2. 100 Voices: Boris Pofalla, Olga von Schubert, Cara Jordan, Das Bo [5:14]
3. Tom Waits: What’s he building? [1999] [3:16]
4. Well Beuys, you know: Susanne Titz in conversation with Kasper König [in German] [30:00]
5. Elisabeth Rosenthal: I like America [in German] [7:00]
6. Noah Creshevsky: Great Performances [2021] [6:13]
7. 100 Voices: Marie Arleth Skov, André Odier, Kasia Lorenc, Kenneth Goldsmith, Ralf R. Ollertz, Toula
Limnaois, Beth Stephens & Annie Sprinkle [2021] [5:07]
8. Benjamin Hasselhorn, Podcast: Die ganze Wirklichkeit – Braucht Demokratie Mythen? [in German] [35:00]
Beuys described himself as a storyteller and cultivated an unbiased approach to myths. But aren't
myths problematic or even dangerous, especially when they become political? Why can't we get rid
of myths even in the 21st century?
And how can we deal with them constructively? Fat and felt, German oaks and shamanism - Joseph
Beuys has repeatedly made use of myths and archaic forms in his work and his self-portrayal. This
has just as often brought him criticism - as a folk esoteric, pseudo-mystic, manipulative self-
promoter. For isn't myth an irrational, latently falsifying representation of the past - often with fatal
consequences for the present?
The historian Benjamin Hasselhorn takes the controversy surrounding Beuys' treatment of myths as
a starting point for fundamental considerations on the subject of myth and mythmaking. To which
human needs do myths respond? Do we need myths in a pluralistic, democratic society? And if so -
which ones?
By Benjamin Hasselhorn
Technical Realisation: Werner Jäger
Director: Thomas Werner
Production: WDR in Kooperation mit »beuys 2021«
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das programm 19. Mozart – Pork, Beethoven – Pork: Playlist by Matthias Osterwold [85:00]
Music, including text music, that influenced Beuys, music that he made himself, and music that
others made about Beuys: Richard Wagner, Erik Satie, Marcel Duchamp, James Joyce, John Cage,
Kurt Schwitters, Nam June Paik, Henning Christiansen, Peter Ablinger, Arturas Bums-teinas,
Siegfried Koepf, Richard Rijnvo
Tracklist:
Erik Satie – Vexations
John Cage Roaratorio – An Irish Circus on Finnegans Wake
Erik Satie – Messe de pauvres (daraus: Comune qui mundi nefas)
Richard Wagner – Parsifal Vorspiel (Berliner Philharmoniker, Wilhelm Furtwängler)
Peter Ablinger – Piccolo und Rauschen für Piccolo-Flöte und CD
Marcel Duchamp – Erratum Musical (for three voices)
John Cage – Music for Marcel Duchamp
Alexei Lubimov – präpariertes Klavier
Siegfried Koepf – Beuys Goes Pythagoras
Henning Christiansen – Fluxorum Organum op. 39. Musik zu Joseph Beuys Eurasienstab (Franz
Meiswinkel, Orgel der Liebfrauenkirche Düsseldorf)
Kurt Schwitters – Ursonate
Joseph Beuys – Ja Ja Ja Ja Ja, Nee Nee Nee Nee Nee
Arturas Bumsteinas spielt Joseph Beuys‘ Schottische Symphonie
Joseph Beuys / Nam June Paik – In Memoriam George Maciunas
John Cage – The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs
Richard Rijnvos Block Beuys – Raum 3
Erik Satie – Le fils des étoiles (daraus: Prelude du premiere act 1)
Alexei Lubimov – Klavier
10. Culture for Everyone: Raimar Stange in conversation with Olga von Schubert [25:00]
11. 100 Voices: María Cecilia Barbetta, Jonathan Meese, Hans Peter Riegel, Kea Wienand, Agnes Meyer-
Brandis [3:49]
12. Milan Knížák & Opening Performance Orchestra: Broken Suite [2020] [23:00]
Milan Knížák: sound sources, Opening Performance Orchestra: electronics
The piece Broken Suite will be released during this year on CD Aktual univerzita at Sub Rosa.
13. 100 Voices: Adrian Piper, Peter-Klaus Schuster, Judy Lybke, Valie Export, Andreas Fischer, David Elliott
[8:37]
13 May 0:00–4:30 h
14. »It’s not like I listen to concerts all the time«: Playlist by Ursula Block [85:00]
...it's not like I listen to concerts all the time... but logically a lot of other stuff that comes in through
the ears, sheep instead of violins, piano Oxygen, speech operations, the purring of Paddy,
Furguson, Spot and Arthur, funeral for a mouse, and Nescafé Gold, Yeah Yeah Yeah!
With Konrad Schnitzler, Charlotte Moorman, Nam June Paik, Henning
Christiansen, Terry Fox, Carlfriedrich Claus, Emmett Williams, Jackson Mac Low a.o.
Tracklist:
Konrad Schnitzler – Eruption 1
Jackson Mac Low – The Long Hot Summer
Beuys / Christiansen – Schottische Symphonie. Requiem of Art, 1973 (Ausschnitt)
Terry Fox – Isolation Unit
Henning Christiansen – Abschiedssymphonie
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das programm 2Emmett Williams – A Cellar Song For Five Voices
Nam June Paik / Russel Connor – Waiting for Commercials
Henning Christiansen – Schafe statt Geigen
Carlfriedrich Claus – Lautagregat
Terry Fox – The Labyrinth Scored for 11 Different Cats
Henning Christiansen – Konstruktioner
15. EVERYTHING FLOWS, or: »Music is a message from the future«: Playlist by Anna Schürmer [60:00]
Fluxus is the art of hybrid flow, the aesthetic panta rhei of processuality. And »everything flows« also
applies to the work of Joseph Beuys. This playlist meanders between the avant-gardes and pop -
and culminates in a pop-avant-garde crossover of »U« and »E«: »Ü-Musik" in other words - and a
little surprise is also contributed by Beuys student and free-sequence researcher Emil Schult and his
Transhuman Art Critics with an original composition for »beuys 2021«. If you want to experience the
»expanded concept of art« on a formal aesthetic level while listening: Why not run this almost one-
hour playlist in parallel with the good one-hour piano duet that Joseph Beuys performed together
with Nam June Paik in 1978 »In memoriam George Maciunas« – or else the simultaneous
performance by the two Fluxus heroes of Coyote III / Pianovariation (1984).
Tracklist:
Avantgarden:
John Cage – Williams Mix
Phil Corner – Piano Activities
Nam June Paik/Charlotte Moorman – Waiting For Commercials
Dieter Schnebel – Bagatelle #6, Trauermarsch (für Joseph Beuys)
Pop:
The Velvet Underground & Nico – femme fatale
Jefferson Airplane – Lather
John Lennon – Instant Karma! (We All Shine On)
POPAVANTGARDE:
Henk Badings – Evolutions (Ballet Suite) #1 Ouvertüre
Kraftwerk – Ruckzuck
Die Partei (Walter Dahn) – Tag An Der Grenze
Conrad Schnitzler – Magic Party
Joseph Beuys – Sonne statt Reagan
Martin Kippenberger – ja ja ja ja ja, nee nee nee nee nee
BONUS TRACK
Transhuman Art Critics – Original composition for »beuys2021«
16a. Shamanism and Electricity: Playlist by Thibaut de Ruyter [120:00]
This playlist confronts Beuys’ understanding of shamanism with ethnological music and
contemporary compositions. The central piece of this playlist is »Ström« by Swedish artist Carl
Michael von Hausswolff. For this track, Hausswolff amplifies and subtly transforms the sound of pure
electricity. It’s about energy, physicality and grain – while it reminds of the tiny sensors plugged in
»Unschlitt/Tallow« (1977) from Beuys, making us believe that the paraffin wax is full of energy and
that we should be careful not to get an electric shock when approaching the artwork.
Tracklist:
Pan Sonic – Paine
David Toop, Mabutawi Teri – Rain Song
Raushan Orazbayeva & Tokzhan Karatai – Bashpai »Elim-Ai, Halkym-Ai« (Korkyt) (X-Xi Century)
Cosey Fanni Tutti, Split – From The Album Tutti
Daniel Schmidt And The Berkeley Gamelan – Rebab Delay
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das programm 3Carl Michael Von Hausswolff – Ström
Galya Bisengalieva – Tulpar
Kali Malone – Sacrificial Code (Live In Hagakyrka)
Holger Czukay – Breath Taking (With Karlheinz Stockhausen)
Monks Of The Gandantegchinlen Monastery – Office Du »Qailangiyn Qural«
Joseph Beuys – Sonne Statt Reagan
Unknown – Kyrgyzstan - Koukou (Kiguatch Coz Komouz)
13 May 4:30–7:30 h
16b. (continued) Shamanism and Electricity: Playlist by Thibaut de Ruyter
17. 100 Voices: Nezaket Ekici, Vadim Zakharov, Sara Barnes, Liav Mizrahi, Sibille Spiegel [8:43]
18. Die Tödliche Doris: Das typische Ding – Reenactment (I) [20:00]
Die Tödliche Doris could be described as an invisible sculpture of which Beuys often spoke. Doris
has no body. She forms in 1980 as a post-punk band with different lineups, liquefies in white wine in
1987 and celebrates her comeback in 2018 with the LP box Reenactment – The Typical Thing: 31
Sounds, 31 Drawings and 31 Reviews of 31 Different Vibrators. Doris herself, now in the form of
many individual sex toys remains absent.
Tracklist:
Einführung
VibratingBullet / RO-80mm Ammunition for love
Better Than Chocolate
Tiani 2
Getaway
Rave
Flare
Cayona
Penguin
Tango Smartvibe
Rub my duckie
Motorhead Overkill
Phoenix Magma Toy
Iris
Partner plus
Womanizer 2Go
19. 100 Voices: Karl-Heinz Bonny, Wolfger Pöhlmann, Miguel Rothschild, Catherine Evans,
Thomas Koch [7:33]
20. Miki Yui: Plant Music [2021] [60:00]
The electro-acoustic composition is inspired by an early drawing by Beuys, »Plant« from 1947.
Here, »Plant« implies not only the mother of all organism on the earth but also the verb »to plant«,
and »Music« is the transporter and the transformer into alternated flow of time and entangled
space. »Plant Music« invites listener to an imaginary world at dawn - the process of a seed growing,
embraced in soil, water, air, and light, the communication between micro-organisms become
tangible.
21. Klang ist Skulptur – Terry Fox: Playlist by Carsten Seiffarth [55:00]
Like Joseph Beuys, who said you hear a sculpture before you see it, his contemporary and fellow
artist Terry Fox considered sound to be sculpture. Fox is a pioneer in working with sound as a
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das programm 4sculptural material. In his art, traditional sculpture is extended through performative action in a
specific duration and in a defined resonant space.
An at least auditory impression of such situations is given by the three sound recordings of sound
sculptures with long stretched piano strings in space presented here. The strings that Fox himself
makes vibrate are both sculpture and instrument, and the sounds he produces are those of the
resonating space as much as of the taut strings.
For "Suono Interno" (1979, track 1), Fox stretched two piano strings lengthwise through the entire
nave in an empty church in Bologna. In the 14-minute excerpt from this work, released here for the
first time (with many thanks to Marita Loosen-Fox, Estate of Terry Fox), Fox, walking very slowly
through the wide resonant space between the church portal and the crypt, strokes the two
colophoned strings with his fingers. In the following two recordings from Künstlerhaus Bethanien in
Berlin (tracks 2 and 3), he plays long piano strings percussively minimalist with a chopstick at first,
then with a resinated violin bow, creating an alternating strongly resonating in and out of the strings
in the space. All sound recordings are excerpts from performances lasting several hours.
Tracklist:
Track 1: Suono Interno [Bologna 1979] – 14:24 Min.
Track 2: Attic Wire, Beating [Berlin 1981] – 24:44 Min.
Track 3: Attic Wire, Bowing [Berlin 1981] – 15:07 Min.
22. Culture for Everyone: Raimar Stange in conversation with Joulia Strauss [31:00]
23a. Joseph Beuys at the Guggenheim, New York: An Audioguide [in English] [1979]
13 May 7:30–12:00 h
23b. (continued) Joseph Beuys at the Guggenheim, New York: An Audioguide [in English] [1979] [102:44]
24. 100 Voices: Alberta Mayo, Zhenhua Li, Sorana Serban, April Gertler, Albert Markert, Klaus Theuerkauf,
Svea Duwe [11:34]
25. Culture for Everyone: Raimar Stange in conversation with Ulf Aminde [28:45]
26. 100 Voices: Marco Biermann, Tilman Baumgärtel in collaboration with https://ttsreader.com/, Barbara
Breitenfellner, Gregor Jansen, Tereza de Arruda, Bogomir Ecker, Kathrin Becker, Carolin Bohlmann, Nicola
Theisen [14:16]
27. How famous is Joseph Beuys? [in German] [1979] [58:06]
28. 100 Voices: Albrecht Schäfer und Antje Engelmann [2:08]
29. Beuys and the Celtic World: Playlist by Susan Philipsz [38:00]
»I went to Belfast in 1994 to begin an MA in Fine Art at the University of Ulster. I knew that Joseph
Beuys had also been to Belfast in the 1970's and that he was a big influence on my tutors who had
been students at the time. I believe his visit changed the way art was taught in Belfast with more
emphasis on performance and social political issues and site specific approaches. I also realise that
the Celtic World had a big influence on Beuys. He was inspired by the nature and mythology of
western Scotland, Ireland and England. I thought I would delve into this world to compile a playlist
for beuysradio. I have made a selection of my favourite singers from different generations with songs
that touch on themes of nature and landscape, of humans and the animal kingdom and of love, loss
and social justice.« Susan Philipsz
Tracklist:
Robert Burns –The Highland Widow's Lament
Alasdair Roberts – Pangs
Radie Peat and Darragh Lynch (Lankum) – Hares on the Mountain
Alasdair Roberts – River Rhine
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das programm 5Elizabeth Cronin – Lord Gregory
Anne Briggs – Reynardine
Alasdair Roberts – Under No Enchantment
Shirley Collins and the Albion Band – The White Hare
Luke Kelly and Dave Philips – Wild Mountain Thyme
Alasdair Roberts – Coral and Tar
Shirley Collins – My Bonny Cuckoo
30. Well Beuys, you know: Eugen Blume in conversation with Sebastian Blasius [25:00]
13 May 12:00–16:00 h
31. Podcast Feature: Anna Bromley – Waves and Commons [in English] [180:00]
Italy, 1975. Socio-political struggles trigger a ‚radio wave revolution‘. By law, frequencies become
commons. In the 1970s, Beuys intensively works in Italy. He is an ‚ear witness‘ to the emerging
‚radios di movimento‘. Not much later, clandestine ‚Free radios' will also broadcast in Beuys
neighboring area in Germany.
Of course, the spring of self-organized radio stations was not limited to Central Europe in the
Seventies. Until today, radio activists invent their own, often clandestine ‚common wave forms‘ - be it
in Germany, Israel, Italy, Hungary, South Africa, or Turkey.
With: Tanja Bosch, Ieva Gudaityte, Bodo K. and Uli K. (Radio Fledermaus), Alex Körner, Ilksen
Mavituna, Liav Mizrahi, and Matteo Spanó.
Speakers: Anna Bromley, Daniel Brunet, and Sybella Perry.
Voice over: Podcastproduzenten
Technical realization: Anna Bromley, Michael Fesca, and Manfred Miersch
The podcast includes:
- »Location Determination Difficulties«, radio drama by Anna Bromley 2020.
- »Speaking in the Present«, performative reading with Caroline Adler, Salwa Aleryani, Chiara Dazi,
Michael Fesca, Moritz Gansen, Chris Glee, Sönke Hallmann, Ulrike Jordan, Eylem Sengezer, Merve
Ünsal, and Jo Zahn. Anna Bromley 2019.
32. Beuys Keep Swinging: Playlist by Arsalan Mohammad [60:00]
Beuys Keep Swinging is an hour long radiophonic odyssey of contemporary and ancient music and
noises honouring the many moods of Joseph Beuys. Kick back and soak up the sunshine. From
coyotes to krautrock, this is an immersive supersonic sound extravaganza!
Tracklist:
Todrick Hall – I Like Boys
David Bowie – Boys Keep Swinging
Charlie XCX – Boys
Simone Battle – He Likes Boys
Erik Satie – Gnossienne No 1
The Waitresses – I Know What Boys Like
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – Teach Your Children
Monza – Rauf und Runter
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark – Electricity
Joseph Beuys – Sonne statt Reagan
Sabrina – Boys (Summertime Love)
Can – I Want More
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das programm 6Joni Mitchell – Coyote
Organization – Ruckzuck
The Beatles – Boys
13 May 16:00–20:00 h
33. 100 Voices: Gisela Staupe, Wolfgang Müller, Ellen Blumenstein, Thomas Stricker [5:12]
34. Culture for Everyone: Raimar Stange in conversation with Peter Niemann [23:07]
35. Joan La Barbara: Circular Song [1976] [7:31]
36. Yuan Gong: Five Questions on Joseph Beuys [5:00]
37. 100 Voices: Andreas Koch, Akane Kimbara, Adrian Schiesser, Michal B. Ron, Dorothea Zwirner, Raimar
Stange, Marianne Franz, Else Gabriel Wolfgang Zumdick, Ron Manheim, Barbara Gronau, Thomas
Schnalke, Katja Blomberg, Thaddaeus Ropac, Beatrice E. Stammer, Ivo Wessel, Katharina von Chlebowski,
Jonas Burgert [19:53]
38. Electronic Music 1977–1986: Playlist by Stefan Schneider [60:00]
»If you’re really interested in music, you shouldn’t play the piano.« Joseph Beuys
This mix features a selection of tracks produced and released in West Germany during the diverse
energy streams of the period 1978 – 1986, which set new, far-reaching musical impulses that are
still effective internationally today.
From the late 1970s onwards, electronic musical instruments, such as synthesizers and rhythm
machines, were available cheaply for the first time and inspired many who had no prior musical
knowledge to indulge in futuristic sound experiments. The simultaneously exploding musical
awakening of punk met with a new self-determined and self-confident research and performance in
all areas of contemporary art.
Joseph Beuys, with his conceptual precision and his holistic social reorganization, was one of the
most important impulse generators in the field of visual art during this time. Artistic activity, similar to
punk and electronic music, was no longer linked to craftsmanship but strove for a complete
redefinition of conditions and thus made a clear break with the understanding of art at that time.
Brian Eno said in 1975: »The musician today is no longer a trained instrumentalist, but an artist who
makes decisions.«
Joseph Beuys also played a decisive role in the establishment of this new image of the artist.
Tracklist:
Loch (Joseph Beuys 1981, in der Kunsthalle Düsseldorf) Tonaufnahme Stefan Schneider, 2010
Conrad Schnitzler – Rhythmus 78
Ralf Dörper – Kranke Menschen
Konrad Kraft – Arctica 3
Michael von Biel – Fassung Elektronische Musik
Asmus Tietchens – TREKK
Maria Zerfall – Wohin?
Palais Schaumburg – Morgen wird der Wald gefegt (Live)
MENTOCOME – B6
CHBB – MauMau
SEESSELBERG – Synthetik 1
Ettlinger – bzw
Reiko Kudo – Noise
Kurzschluss – L’ inconnu
Deux Baleines Blanches – Draht 6
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das programm 7Dino Oon – map
Roter Stern Belgrad – Arfas & Issas
39. Culture for Everyone: Raimar Stange in conversation with Marina Naprushkina [25:10]
40. 100 Voices: Gesine Borcherdt, Jörg Sundermeier, Adrienne Goehler, Holm Friebe [4:31]
41. Well Beuys, you know: Catherine Nichols in conversation with Raimar Stange [25:00]
42. 100 Voices: Milan Knížák, Monika Brandmeier, Anna Bella Geiger, Gunnar Friel [4:15]
43. »The idea of music belongs more to the future«: Playlist by Fernanda Parente [55:00]
What will music sound like in the future? Will the next pop star be an artificial human? Will science
and technology drive composition? Will audio and video be inextricably connected in the metaverse?
This playlist features contemporary artists exploring some of these questions in their creative
practice. Human-machine-nature symbiosis, acoustic instruments producing electronic-sounding
beats, virtual reality headset records…these are some of the aspects permeating this compilation.
They explore unchartered territories and speculate about possible musical futures.
Tracklist:
Byrke Lou – Earth
Moritz Simon Geist – In g# (Katze läuft über Klavier)
Brandt Brauer Frick – Masse
Holy Herndon – Frontier
Peaches & Pussykrew – Fill the Whole
Ash Koosha – GUUD
Yona – Art and Law
Tarik Barri & Lea Fabrikant – Versum
Nanotopia – Mycelial Networks between Reality
44. 100 Voices: Veronika Kellndorfer, Tomas Kleiner, April Gertler, Hannes Langbein, Karl Heinz Rummeny,
Pipilotti Rist, Exterritory Project [Ruti Sela und Maayan Amir], Marcel Odenbach, Marc Wellmann, Kristina
Buch, Özlem Altin [17:42]
Concept and Project Management: Catherine Nichols
Team: Eugen Blume, Anne-Marie Franz, Inga Nake, Bianca Quasebarth, Pia Witzmann
Production: Die Podcastproduzenten (Tina Küchenmeister, Claudius Nießen, Tobias Rohe, Andreas
Popella, Annegret Richter, Rabea Schloz)
With sincere thanks to all the people who contributed to the realisation of this comprehensive and exciting programme by lending us
their support their voices, their music and their engagement with Beuys in interviews, conversations and podcasts.
»beuys 2021« ist ein Projekt des Ministeriums für Kultur und Wissenschaft des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen in
Zusammenarbeit mit der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf unter der Leitung von Prof. Dr. Eugen Blume und Dr. Catherine
Nichols
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