Item #39720 FREE INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOR CREATIVITY AND INTER-DISCIPLINARY RESEARCH. Two pamphlets produced by the Free International University (an open university co-founded by Joseph Beuys in Düsseldorf in 1973), together with a third pamphlet, “Organisation für direkte Demokratie”.
FREE INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOR CREATIVITY AND INTER-DISCIPLINARY RESEARCH. Two pamphlets produced by the Free International University (an open university co-founded by Joseph Beuys in Düsseldorf in 1973), together with a third pamphlet, “Organisation für direkte Demokratie”.
FREE INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOR CREATIVITY AND INTER-DISCIPLINARY RESEARCH. Two pamphlets produced by the Free International University (an open university co-founded by Joseph Beuys in Düsseldorf in 1973), together with a third pamphlet, “Organisation für direkte Demokratie”.
FREE INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOR CREATIVITY AND INTER-DISCIPLINARY RESEARCH. Two pamphlets produced by the Free International University (an open university co-founded by Joseph Beuys in Düsseldorf in 1973), together with a third pamphlet, “Organisation für direkte Demokratie”.
FREE INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOR CREATIVITY AND INTER-DISCIPLINARY RESEARCH. Two pamphlets produced by the Free International University (an open university co-founded by Joseph Beuys in Düsseldorf in 1973), together with a third pamphlet, “Organisation für direkte Demokratie”.
FREE INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOR CREATIVITY AND INTER-DISCIPLINARY RESEARCH. Two pamphlets produced by the Free International University (an open university co-founded by Joseph Beuys in Düsseldorf in 1973), together with a third pamphlet, “Organisation für direkte Demokratie”.

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FREE INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOR CREATIVITY AND INTER-DISCIPLINARY RESEARCH. Two pamphlets produced by the Free International University (an open university co-founded by Joseph Beuys in Düsseldorf in 1973), together with a third pamphlet, “Organisation für direkte Demokratie”.

All three SIGNED by Beuys.

i) Konzept für eine “Freie Internationale Schule für Kreativität, Kommunikation und interdisciplinäres Gespräch” (Düsseldorf: Freie Internationale Schule, nd. [1972, later issue?]). 4pp. pamphlet. 21x15cm. Cover bears the blue stamp of the FIU and an announcement in holograph facsimile of a talk to be given in the Düsseldorfer Kunstakademie (May 1977?), presumably by Beuys, who was a professor there. The pamphlet, which calls for a fundamental renewal of the educational system, has been signed in pencil by Beuys. Fine. The FIU was founded by Beuys together with Heinrich Böll, Klaus Staeck, Georg Meistermann, Willi Bongard and others as a free university intended to supplement the state educational system with interdisciplinary work and cooperation between the sciences and the arts. Envisaged as a free space without a fixed location and a flexible, self-organising network, presentations of the FIU took place in Kassel Documenta (1977 and 1982), the Battersea Arts Centre in London (1978), the Guggenheim Museum Gallery in New York (1979), the Edinburgh Festival (1974, 1976, 1980), and Abruzzo in Italy (1984), and subsequent FIUs were founded by students of Beuys in Amsterdam, Antwerp, Gelsenkirchen, Hamburg and Munich.

ii) A pamphlet reprinting Beuys’ text “Aufruf zur Alternative” (“Appeal for an Alternative”) from the December 23, 1978 issue of the Frankfurter Rundschau. Leporello pamphlet printed on newsprint paper (10pp.). 20x13.2cm. Cover bears the blue stamp of the Free International University. Signed in pencil by Beuys to upper right. Fine. An important manifesto (and fundamental document of the Green Party) in which Beuys reiterates the ideals of his earlier projects on direct democracy and education reform, and calls for the abolition of capitalism and communism.

iii) Organisation Für Direkte Demokratie Durch Volksabstimmung (Düsseldorf: Freie Volksinitiative, nd. [c. 1972?]). 8pp. pamphlet, with the artist’s Hauptstrom rubber stamp to front cover. 21x15cm. Boldly signed in black ink by Beuys. Fine. The Organisation for Direct Democracy was, like the Free International University, part of a series of political activist organisations founded by Beuys. Set up as a storefront meeting place in Düsseldorf, it was aimed at citizen-initiated legislation and intended to educate people about the working processes of democracy and on how to avoid engaging with the dominant political party system.

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