Lecture
The lecture takes up some of Joseph Beuys' theses on direct democracy and tries to explain why an art practice that Beuys once called »anti-art« can be the starting point for the coming democratic revolution. Democracy has come out of revolutions (511 BC, 1777, 1789, 1918, 1989...). If we take self-determination, the possibility of living a free life and organising freedom and equality for all as the starting point of our understanding of democracy, the realisation of democracy will require a revolution.
Ludger Schwarte on Gustaf-Gründgens-Platz in Düsseldorf. The professor of the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf not only gave a lecture himself, but also moderated all the lectures and talks on political philosophy during the kick-off and at the Live-In Lab. Photo: Rainer Schlautmann
Ludger Schwarte giving a lecture on Gustaf-Gründgens-Platz, video commissioned by the Institute for Art History at HHU, project »beuys2021« – editing: project office »beuys2021« and raumlaborberlin.