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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.wvu.edu>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: Eider: Joseph Beuys among the Common Eider
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2017 22:25:20 -0500 (EST)
Eider: Joseph Beuys among the Common Eider http://www.alansondheim.org/beuys.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/bt54.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/beuys.mp4 video http://www.alansondheim.org/bt52.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/beuys.jpg Eider: Joseph Beuys among the Common Eider with Jon Woodson i have always loved Joseph Beuys' Coyote, always felt sorrowful and depressed for the animal, then there were so many common eider and so much wildness in the man and the american horror he felt so long ago, i was awe struck by his blackboards and openness to students, and the freedom oddly at that time and the way art in some places was taken with amazing seriousness and depth, and the Tate Modern and his being at NSCAD and what that meant at the time, as if the body and felt and fat and piano and scrawl and stick embodied worlds, brought the body back into life within and without refuge and refugee and all that slow learning that might have accompanied him and the sled and his return, i think of Beuys ecology, harnessing and release, and always hoped after so much he would never die, and what always seemed his silence and the silence of the grand piano and the muffled felt and sodden or sullen corners of the rooms and what was almost no longer a waiting zone, never a landing zone, always a landing 18c18 < felt so long ago, i was awe struck by his blackboards and --- > felt so long ago, i was awestruck by his blackboards and 23c23 < scrawl and stick embodied worlds, brought the body back into --- > scrawl and stick bemodied worlds, brought the body back into 26c26 < return, i think of Beuys ecology, harnessing and release, and --- > return, i think of Beuys ecology, harnassing and release, and +