Sounds of Eurasia – Constructing a network through Beuys/voice mail

For Beuys EURASIA was an imaginary place, a fertile thought
space, where the divide between east and west, between intuition
and rationality and countless other formative binaries could be
overcome.


For DJ Sniff, a Tokyo-based musician from LA, contemporary
Eurasia is also a place at once real and imaginary. Invited by
the Goethe-Institut in Tokyo to participate in the
cross-disciplinary art project “Beuys on/off”, he took a close
critical look at Beuys‘ utopian concept of EURASIA. Since the
pandemic coincided with this invitation, he has been working from
his home in Tokyo instead of travelling across the region. He’s
been working with only voices, music, sounds and other material
traces to capture a sense of who Beuys was, how his work is
transformed over time and above all: what Eurasia is, what it
might be, what it could be or become.


In the fourth episode of “Die Erde spricht / the Earth is
speaking” DJ Sniff explores the sounds and ideas of Beuys as they
survive on records in relation to his own music and the
soundscapes of his everyday life. He takes records as objects and
vehicles. As a point of departure for thinking about the music
business and the business of making music. And for reflecting on
both of these as social practices that bring people together
across the world – even, or perhaps especially, during a
pandemic.


For all information on the anniversary programme „beuys 2021. 100
years of joseph beuys“ visit: https://beuys2021.de/