BEUYS LAUGHING

In early 1974 Joseph Beuys, Klaus Staeck and Gerhard Steidl sat in a Boeing 747 from New York to Düsseldorf, returning home after Be uys American tour. The trip had been a controversial success, and its every stage carefully documented by Staeck and Steidl in vide os, photographs and audiotheir trusty Sony TC-50 cassette recorder was always at Beuys side during his lectures, conferences and w orkshops. To relieve the boredom of the flight, the three listened to some of the recordings and Beuys surprisedly noticed just how much he laug...[Read more]