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Categories: Action
Relevant passages:
Rudolf Frieling «Reality/Mediality
Hybrid Processes Between Art and Life»
Works by Timm Ulrichs:
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Timm Ulrichs
«Selbstausstellung»
«today’s artist is IDEAPRODUCER & - deliverer, game director, and director.» In keeping with this view of the matter, Timm Ulrichs has managed his ‹art office› (Consultation Hours By Appointment, company plaque, 1969) since the 1960s. As early as 1961, he exhibited himself as the ‹first living artwork,› a staging he intended to repeat at the «Jury-Free Berlin Art Exhibition» (1965). Set against the concept of the ‹art office,› the question being pursed considers a new discussion of the origins of a Beuys-related ‹expanded concept of art›. Coincidentally, Eberhard Roters refused to allow Ulrichs’ action piece on the grounds of a customs ruling demanding artworks be made by the hands. Just the same, the artist managed to have himself photographed in the glass display case.
(Source: Matthias Reichelt, «Die Angst des Künstlers vorm Verschwinden oder Geld spielt keine Rolle,» in: Timm Ulrichs, Der detektorische Blick, Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin, 1997, p. 6.)
