Oubliez Beuys! Не забудьте Joseph-а!

“Forget Beuys! Don’t forget Joseph!”. This is how the title of
this episode of „Die Erde spricht / The Earth is Speaking”
translates. It is a sound collage sculpted from the voices of
eight Bulgarian intellectuals and artists of various media.
Sofia-based artist Luchezar Boyadjiev orchestrated them into an
equally entertaining and surprising collection of bon mots and
statements. And one thing becomes clear time and again during
this rigorous questioning: “Beuys” has the somewhat dubious
status of a male art superstar of the twentieth century.
“Joseph”, on the other hand, is the inventor of practices and
ideas that will always be able to inspire new rounds of
questioning, methodologies and artistic practices that have
serious social implications – either for specific locations and
local contexts, or for art in general.