Great Moments in Modern Art #2 - Beuys Crashes His Stuka

Nov 29 — Dec 23, 1983
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Exhibition

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While in residence at Western Front, Robert Adrian X presented a recreation of Joseph Beuys crashing his Stuka dive-bomber in Crimea in 1943. 

During the telecommunications event Wiencouver IV which took place as part of Adrian X’s residency, he used slowscan video technology to broadcast a series of images from the installation at Western Front to Vienna, Austria.

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