Intro

Marina Abramovic's Imponderabilia

Joseph Beuys' 7000 Oaks

Gilbert&George's The Singing Sculpture

Valie Export's Tapp und Tastkino

Vito Acconci's Seedbed

Chris Burden's Shoot

Live videos
Interview
Credits

Eva and Franco Mattes aka 0100101110101101.ORG
Reenactment of Joseph Beuys' 7000 Oaks

Synthetic Performance in Second Life, 2007
 

 

Beuys' project begun on March the 16th 1982, at Documenta 7, in Kassel. His plan called for the planting of seven thousand trees, each paired with a columnar basalt stone. Beuys intended the Kassel project to be the first stage in an ongoing scheme of tree planting to be extended throughout the world as part of a global mission to effect environmental and social change.

The Mattes are reenacting Beuys' work "7000 Oaks", staging the new performance in the synthetic world of Second Life. The first virtual tree and stone were planted on March the 16th 2007, exactly 25 years after the original oak was planted.

The 7000 basalt stones have been stacked on an island in Second Life. The diminishing pile of virtual stones will indicate the progress of the project, which will go on until all 7000 oaks and stones will be placed. Second Life inhabitants will have the chance to take part to the performance, placing stones and trees in their lands.

 Joseph Beuys
7000 Oaks
1982-1987
Kassel
 

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