"This most modern art discipline–Social Sculpture/Social Architecture–will only reach fruition when every living person becomes a creator, a sculptor, or architect of the social organism."
Joseph Beuys
Joseph Beuys documentary from cordltx on Vimeo.
Beuys wanted to awaken the populace, shake people out of their routines, the acceptable rigors one can pass through life with, unobservant of the disparities and conflicts all around. "...I not only want to stimulate people, I want to provoke them."
Beuys strongly believed that art had the power to shape a better society and once stated that 'It was simply impossible for human beings to bring their creative intention into the world any other way than through action." This strength of conviction led Beuys to push the boundaries of established artforms to include human action and large-scale sculptural environments exploring universal social concerns.
I can see the similarities in my thinking with that of Beuys's, In my project my aim is to stimulate and incorporate human action into my final design and I agree to some extent that art has the power to shape and challenge society and the established norms of human behaviour.
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