Felt TV

As a contribution to Gerry Schums Identifications Beuys adapted for television the Felt TV action previously staged for a live audience at a Happening festival in Copenhagen in 1966 It was the only Beuys action executed specifically for the camera It opens with Beuys seated in front of a TV set showing a programme which is invisible because the screen is covered by felt The boxinggloves used later in the action lie at the ready beneath his chair