`Beuys: .. .When I do something shamanistic, I make use of the shamanistic element--admittedly an element of the past--in order to express something about a future possibility. Simmen: All right, but how much of it is the presence of the shamanistic now, how much of it is the actuality of a model taken from the past, and how much of it is really alive and viable at the present time? Beuys: It's this aliveness that I'm after, also in the sense of will power based on the necessity of bringing back something into our time-conscious culture that's been lost, namely a willingness to take these lost forces seriously, forces that are there in shamanism, and to put them back in the context of our thinking in a completely new way. That's why these things are realities not only in an aesthetic context, they're also real intentions. (27)` <@()!)__!_$(*%)>
{{joseph beuys--COYOTE ACTION--ny/1974}