Words from Visions
10. Nam June Paik (1932‐2006)
http://www.ubu.com/film/paik.html
01: Nam June Paik ? Zen For Films (1962‐64)
uncorrupted metaphysical screen
white on black
rectangle inside a rectangle
immobile
the screen is a screen
the screen reproduced
on the same screen
Derek Jarman?s Blue is spoken
you can see his life unfolding
his visual voice leading
the nostalgic thickness of cobalt blue
Nam June Paik?s lack of soundtrack
freezes in
expectation
an imploded Zen
forced faked effaced
Kitasono Katue?s ? Monotonous Space?
breaks its fixed pattern with other colors
his monotonous offers an emotional quality
Paik?s soundless stillness is stoic even brilliant rhetoric from regret
to a callback of neglect lack of glee tight in its lack of weight
white etched in black stuck in eternal glitch caught
in the net a tent clinging in vortical twirls
blinding glitter blurring lines
a nit without whirr in
nature a twig
in ether a
white
static
wing
11. Joseph Beuys (12. Mai 1921 in Krefeld; ? 23. Januar 1986 in D?sseldorf)
http://www.ubu.com/film/beuys.html
Filz TV
10?, (1970)
Sonne statt Reagan
1? 57??, (1982)
To make people free is the aim of art, therefore art for me is the science of freedom.
Joseph Beuys &
his charisma
perform
his gray suit his indistinguishable hat
boxing with a television singing
with the Disserteure
rewriting his
past
awakening from
dictatorship
after his
death
not everybody was a Beuys _he died
too soon _as children of his
generation we mourn
him _beloved
father
man beyond death a screen covered with felt
feeding walls caressing wolfs talking
to hares honey as Steiner
said, the perfect
organization
of bees
wars & blood looming from in‐between our eyes
our tongues rolled like sausages into slots
meanwhile we?re a constricted
social structure suffocated
in a transparent
where is the Sonne? You want the Sonne?
which the deviating patterns?
when giving for granted
ingenuity survives
animals teach
we should
learn
7000 oak project for Kassel
give Germany some
oxygen : 5 years
to complete
start 1982