art for a non-human

How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare was a performance piece enacted by the German artist Joseph Beuys on 26 November 1965 at the Galerie Schmela in Düsseldorf.

In 2005 Marina Abramović presented Seven Easy Pieces at the Guggenheim Museum. She recreated the works of five artists; one was Joseph Beuys‘s How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare.

6 years later I explained pictures to my living dog Jerry.

I consider myself very educated, open-minded and I love the arts, but I must need a degree in Arts instead of the Sciences to understand this. This piece made me feel awkward and slightly uncomfortable. Like I am spying on a schizophrenic.

This piece is a post-modern piece. He wears the iron and felt on his feet to represent spirituality and reason, his gold face is to represent money, how we always seem to measure everything in money. The honey is to represent brotherhood because it is related to bees. This work really goes along with the strangeness of modern and post-modern art works.

It’s about surrendering to the sublimity of creativity. Let symbolism reflect directly into awareness.
I really liked the subtle message about the futility of human endeavor and if I‘m not mistaken free Tibet!

What in the name of fucking fuck was fucking that? Fuck. Well at least the hare gets it.

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