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For the duration of the one hundred days of the documenta 6 in 1977, Joseph Beuys made honey flow from this slightly awkward pit, the well of a destructive esprit d’escalier, this site of a sovereignty evacuated many times over. Beuys, that is, installed his fable of the bees at a purposefully vacuous palace where courtly culture had surrendered to the modern museum, but more specifically even, at the supplemental, feigned, then bombed-out site of popular sovereignty.
Keywords: Plasticity; Sculpture; Honigpumpe am Arbeitsplatz - Beuys, Joseph; Art; Totality; Society
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Part of De/Constituting Wholes Containing:
[Frontmatter] /
Beginnings / Manuele Gragnolati, Christoph F. E. Holzhey
Sexual Ghosts and the Whole of History / Volker Woltersdorff
Things I Learned from the Book of Ruth / Ruth Preser
Claims of Existence between Biopolitics and Thanatopolitics / Eirini Avramopoulou
Differently Queer / Manuele Gragnolati
Warburg’s Ghost / Filippo Trentin
Hegel and the Ad-venture of the Totality / Jamila M.H. Mascat
The Innate Plasticity of Bodies and Minds / Robert Meunier, Valentine Reynaud
Pumping Honey
An Eclipse of the Screen / Marcus Coelen
[Backmatter] /
Title
Pumping Honey
Subtitle
Joseph Beuys at the documenta 6
Author(s)
Arnd Wedemeyer
Identifier
https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-11_09
Description
For the duration of the one hundred days of the documenta 6 in 1977, Joseph Beuys made honey flow from this slightly awkward pit, the well of a destructive esprit d’escalier, this site of a sovereignty evacuated many times over. Beuys, that is, installed his fable of the bees at a purposefully vacuous palace where courtly culture had surrendered to the modern museum, but more specifically even, at the supplemental, feigned, then bombed-out site of popular sovereignty.
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De/Constituting Wholes
Place
Vienna
Publisher
Turia + Kant
Date
2017
Subject
Plasticity
Sculpture
Honigpumpe am Arbeitsplatz - Beuys, Joseph
Art
Totality
Society
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This version is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
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Bibliographic Citation
Arnd Wedemeyer, ‘Pumping Honey: Joseph Beuys at the documenta 6’, in De/Constituting Wholes: Towards Partiality Without Parts, ed. by Christoph F. E. Holzhey and Manuele Gragnolati, Cultural Inquiry, 11 (Vienna: Turia + Kant, 2017), pp. 177–214 <https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-11_09>
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214
Source
De/Constituting Wholes: Towards Partiality Without Parts, ed. by Christoph F. E. Holzhey and Manuele Gragnolati, Cultural Inquiry, 11 (Vienna: Turia + Kant, 2017), pp. 177–214
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Cite as: Arnd Wedemeyer, ‘Pumping Honey: Joseph Beuys at the documenta 6’, in De/Constituting Wholes: Towards Partiality Without Parts, ed. by Christoph F. E. Holzhey and Manuele Gragnolati, Cultural Inquiry, 11 (Vienna: Turia + Kant, 2017), pp. 177–214 <https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-11_09>