Free International University Gelsenkirchen
The Free International University Gelsenkirchen was a branch of the Free International University . It developed from the Kunst-AG / Fluxus Zone West founded by Joseph Beuys ' master student Johannes Stüttgen .
history
Foundation of Kunst-AG / Fluxus Zone West
Stüttgen worked from 1971 to 1980 as a salaried art teacher at the Grillo-Gymnasium in Gelsenkirchen and opened the “Free Art Working Group” parallel to his teaching activities at the state school. Right from the start, the art work group, which took place in empty barracks on the school grounds of the Grillo-Gymnasium, was not only open to students of the Grillo-Gymnasium, but addressed everyone. From September 1975 Johannes Stüttgen continued the weekly ring discussions that he had initiated in Beuys class, room 20.
As early as 1973 , three Stüttgen students from the circle of the Kunst-AG found their way to the Düsseldorf Art Academy and the Beuys class: Adolphe Lechtenberg , Reinhold Rudnick and Achim Weber. Siegfried Sander followed later, who from 1979 to 1984 in "Raum 3", Beuys' studio, supported his political work with the Greens .
In 1977 members of the Kunst-AG / Fluxus Zone West founded the kitchen theater , in 1978 the punk band Salinos emerged from this formation . Both groups supported many events of the FIU-Gelsenkirchen in the following years - repeatedly with the participation of Joseph Beuys.
From 1978 Jürgen Kramer worked intensively as a counterpart in the FIU-Gelsenkirchen.
Actions of the Kunst-AG / Fluxus Zone West (1972–1977)
In its activities, exhibitions and campaigns, the Kunst-AG / Fluxus Zone West worked on social sculpture and, above all, pursued the idea of a free, disenfranchised, self-governing school and education system. The underlying impulse was to make art not the object of school, but school the object of art.
In 1972/73 the Kunst-AG visited the Beuys class on the occasion of the winter tour (February 1972); This was followed by an exhibition by Daniela Flörsheim and Hartmut Ritzerfeld (both Beuys class) in the barracks of the Kunst-AG (January 1973)
In 1973, works by the Kunst-AG and the municipal high school in Oerlinghausen (Jost Lohrmann) were on view in the Bielefelder Kunsthalle (February / March) and in the municipal museum in Gelsenkirchen (August) under the mirrored title “The school is there for the people” .
In 1975 the Kunst-AG organized two public rock-n'-roll festivals under the motto "Thinking is more refreshing than sparkling water" in Gelsenkirchen (April 30 and on the last day of school before the summer vacation, July 15).
In 1976 an exhibition in the City Museum Gelsenkirchen "Fluxus Zone West" followed (May). One took part in the summer festival of the city of Gelsenkirchen with the action / passion “The free school” (July).
At the end of the year Johannes Stüttgen was invited as a Beuys master student to the exhibition “with, next to against - the students of Joseph Beuys” in the Frankfurter Kunstverein, but showed the work of his students there (November / December). In December he held a seminar at the Frankfurter Kunstverein "Fluxus - the expanded concept of art and the school".
In 1977 the FIU organized the demonstration "The desert is alive" in the city center of Gelsenkirchen and took part in the summer festival "Aktion Tarnkappe - The blind Grillo art teacher and his desert foxes" (July)
Joseph Beuys always maintained close contact with Kunst-AG / Fluxus Zone West, which became a branch of the Free International University in 1977 , already sent a message of greeting to the exhibition “Fluxus Zone West” and visited the FIU-Gelsenkirchen twice in the following years.
Actions of the Free International University Gelsenkirchen (1977–1980)
On September 4, 1977 the Gelsenkirchen FIU section (with the kitchen theater) organized a day of action under the Beuys' installation " Honey pump at work " at Documenta 6 under the title "Gelsenkirchen - City of 1000 fires, but in the hearts of people" . Siegried Sander and Peter Bloch formed the Thousand Fire Duo and participated in all future FIU Gelsenkirchen activities.
"The 1977 man inaugurates his successor" was a public art event in the same year in the schoolyard of the Grillo-Gymnasium on the last day of school before the Christmas holidays.
On February 9, 1978 a panel discussion with Joseph Beuys took place at the PH Münster under the title “Theses on the concept of culture of the FIU”. After its disappointing course, Beuys made the statement "I would rather make the revolution with the kitchen theater than with ...", which the FIU Gelsenkirchen processed in a postcard.
In May, Johannes Stüttgen's former fellow student Jürgen Kramer, who also came from Gelsenkirchen and was an essential impetus for Stüttgen to start work in this city, visited the FIU-Gelsenkirchen on the occasion of the “Punk lecture” by Achim Weber and Mathias Jakobs. As a result, an intensive, critical collaboration developed. Members of the FIU Gelsenkirchen contributed to Kramer's New Wave magazine Die 80s ; Kramer, in turn, gave a concert with his band The 20th Century in the art barracks.
In September Beuys performed together with the FIU-Gelsenkirchen and the Küchentheater in the Theater a / d Rijn in Arnhem; This was followed by participation in the one-week model in the Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal (September).
In 1979, the FIU-Gelsenkirchen worked together with other alternative groups and personalities to found the local association of the Greens in Gelsenkirchen. In the following years, FIU members from Gelsenkirchen (Stüttgen, Sander, Bloch, Weber, ...) accompanied Joseph Beuys to all state and federal congresses of the Greens.
In March the FIU-Gelsenkirchen organized a working meeting of different groups from Germany and Holland with the participation of Joseph Beuys.
Exhibition at the Städtisches Museum Gelsenkirchen “I bow to the terms” (November 79 to January 80); therein FIU working week (November 30, 1979 to January 7, 1980), during which Beuys gave a lecture
In 1980 Johannes Stüttgen ended his activity in Gelsenkirchen, became managing director of the FIU and head of the Beuys studio "Raum 3" in the Düsseldorf Art Academy and continued working with Joseph Beuys with Siegfried Sander and Michael Heißenberg from the Kunst-AG.
As the last FIU action in Gelsenkirchen, Georg Koppitz performed "The Last Tape" by Samuel Beckett in the barracks of the Grillo-Gymnasium. The long-term work and exhibition rooms of the FIU-Gelsenkirchen were demolished a short time later.
In 2010, the exhibition curated by Jürgen Kramer, “In the Tension Field of the Extended Concept of Art”, reviewed the FIU work in Gelsenkirchen for the first time.
literature
- The whole belt. The appearance of Joseph Beuys as a teacher - the chronology of events at the State Art Academy Düsseldorf 1966–1972 . Ed. Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walter König, Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-86560-306-7 , p. 929 (report Walter Dahn), p. 958-966 (Melencolia I - a teaching sample at the Grillo-Gymnasium )
- Free International University (FIU) - organ of the extended concept of art for social sculpture. A presentation of the idea and history of the FIU . FIU-Verlag, 1987, ISBN 3-928780-02-6
- Jost Lohrmann / Johannes Stüttgen, The school is there for the people (in mirror writing), student works from art lessons at the municipal high school in Oerlinghausen and the municipal Grillo high school in Gelsenkirchen, exhibition catalog 1973
- Jürgen Kramer (Ed.): In the field of tension between the expanded concept of art - Gelsenkirchen around Beuys . Exhibition catalog 2010
- Thomas Groetz: German punk and new wave in the neighborhood of Joseph Beuys . Martin Schmitz Verlag , Berlin 2002, ISBN 978-3-927795-30-3 , pp. 105-119
- Rainer Weber: Come to Hagen, become a pop star . In: Der Spiegel . No. 1 , 1982, pp. 5, 102-105 ( spiegel.de [accessed January 18, 2019]).
Individual evidence
- ↑ "Every city ... belongs ... a" FREE SCHOOL FOR CREATIVITY ", ... What actually makes cities inhuman in the long run is the lack of their intellectual idea." Johannes Stüttgen in The School is There for the People (exhibition catalog), p 44
- ↑ Beuys' thinking realized in Grillo barracks , Westfälische Rundschau, January 20, 1973
- ^ Work by pupils , Westfalenblatt, January 31, 1973
- ↑ Felt a need for a new cosmology - exhibition documents the idea of a “free school” , Buersche Zeitung, August 4, 1973
- ↑ Modern theses in art classes , Gelsenkirchener Blätter 16/73
- ↑ This has nothing to do with nostalgia , Westfälische Rundschau, April 30, 1975
- ^ What art lessons can do , Buersche Zeitung, May 25, 1976
- ^ Provocative Theories , Ruhrnachrichten, May 27, 1976
- ^ The failure exhibited , Frankfurter Rundschau, November 9, 1976
- ^ With, alongside, against Beuys, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, November 9, 1976
- ↑ "I claim, for example, that Gelsenkirchen is one big initiation site." Johannes Stüttgen in actions, interactions and demonstrations for the summer festival at Schloss Berge (accompanying catalog of the Gelsenkirchen Art Association), pp. 76-78
- ^ Fires of the heart burn at the great art event , WAZ, September 1, 1977
- ^ Gelsenkirchen - in the hearts of people , Ruhrnachrichten, September 8, 1977
- ↑ Suddenly the artist disappeared in the trash can , Ruhrnachrichten, December 23, 1977
- ↑ Neue Welle (Die 80s No. 3), Antifanzine (Ed. Jürgen Kramer), pp. 24–28
- ↑ documentation of a punk Treaty, GJZ - Magazine for policy and culture 2/78, pp 1, 14, 15
- ^ Thomas Groetz: German punk and new wave in the neighborhood of Joseph Beuys . Martin Schmitz Verlag , Berlin 2002, ISBN 978-3-927795-30-3 , pp. 106-115
- ^ Thomas Groetz: German punk and new wave in the neighborhood of Joseph Beuys . Martin Schmitz Verlag , Berlin 2002, ISBN 978-3-927795-30-3 , pp. 84-88
- ^ Joseph Beuys explains the new concept of art , Buersche Zeitung, March 20, 1979
- ↑ GE branch is considered to be an important work context , WAZ, March 24, 1979
- ↑ ideas landing site is enabled WAZ 26 März1979
- ↑ With honey bees and toads for the future - Green election campaign: Democracy is funny , WAZ, June 5, 1979
- ↑ Mensch im Kosmos , WAZ, November 30, 1979
- ↑ Free International University makes a stir in the museum - felt artist Beuys gives the cue , Buersche Zeitung, November 30, 1979
- ^ Art, Action and Rock'n'Roll - Josef Beuys in Gelsenkirchen , Guckloch, January 1980, p. 13