Joseph Beuys' work continues to influence and inspire practitioners and thinkers
all over the world, in areas from organizational learning, direct democracy and
new money forms to new art pedagogies and ecological art practices. Here, in di
alogue with Volker Harlan - a close colleague, whose own work also revolves arou
nd understandings of substance and sacrament that are central to Beuys - the dee
per motivations and insights underlying 'social sculpture', Beuys' expanded conc
eption of art, are illuminated. His profound reflections, complemented with insi
ghtful essays by Volker Harlan, give a sense of the interconnectedness between a
ll life forms, and the foundations of a path towards an ecologically sustainable
future.
