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beccsaloser
Nobody sings songs about girls named Becca.
 
or he's just a crazy mofo?
Joseph Beuys.
wow.
so called "artist".

one of his works is called "I like America and America likes me." he got off a plane and was immediately wrapped in felt. he was then transported by ambulance to an empty room with a coyote. he stayed in that room with the coyote, covered in felt and holding a staff, for five days.
he later commented saying that he wanted "to see America, but nothing except the coyote".
it was supposed to protest the Vietnam war, by using the metaphor of how the coyote was seen as a God to the Native Americans, but when more people arrived it was seen as a pest and slaughtered.

another one of his works is called "How to explain art to a dead hare" where he covered his face in gold honey and leaves, and carried around a dead hare while he explained his works to people in an art exhibit.
he did, by the way, use the hare to explain it. moving its hands and feet to show expression.

some more things that i've heard of, is that as a performance he would bring a chair to the middle of a stage, wrap it in barbed wire, then proceed to strip naked in front of the audience. like that wasn't enough he then sat in the chair and wiggled around. getting all cut and everything.
another time he did the same thing, he brought a chair out but instead of wrapping barbed wire around it, he had a box. in the box he pulled out a baby rabbit. he sat down and started petting it, all nice and such. then he started ripping it apart.
yes, you read that correctly.
he ripped the rabbit apart. alive. with the screaming and everything. he would rip the arms and legs and the tail. he did this without ripping off the head, and doing it in the most painful way for the rabbit to take.

some of his more normal works included "Felt Suit", which is a felt suit exhibited on a hanger.
another is called "Fat Corner", where he piled fat into a corner for a timed exhibit. he just put it there and let it rot and smell.


he had a thing with felt and fat. he served in the German army in WWII, and there he got in an airplane accident. in order to save him, some soldiers wrapped him in fat and then in felt, because his injuries were severe. and that's how people understand his obsessions with these things in his art.

here's the video on youtube for his "I like America and America likes me". :
 
how long will it be till she is nice to me?

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