On Friendship / (Collateral Damage) IV How to Explain Hare Hunting to a Dead German Artist [The usefulness of continuous measurement of the distance between Nostalgia and Melancholia] (September 2021 – December 2022)

A critical project concerning post-war artist Joseph Beuys Created by Joseph Sassoon Semah, curator Linda Bouws

LUMEN TRAVO GALLERY Lijnbaansgracht 314, Amsterdam

Joseph Sassoon Semah – solo exhibition ‘On Friendship / (Collateral Damage) IV – 15 January – 17 February 2022

On March the 12th 2022, the artist and his friends have perform the new piece “I Am the Resistance”.

I AM THE RESISTANCE

….every year I am born anew

in the ninth month

my mother groans less loudly

while each year my groans

sound more anguished

an old fool will never believe that

I give my story my own voice

my own speechless voice

in the midst of the crowd

to the last drop of ink

ADIEU

flowers and babies

that’s my address

a picture on the wall

“…We only know that there is no escape from Language –

yet which all of us can trace to its source.

But also, without a doubt – the existence of the Guest emphasizes particularly when he is in close proximity to the impulse of Joseph Beuys to represent himself as a post-war Victim, as an Artist, and finally as a certain Redeemer and Healer.”

Performance:

Joseph Sassoon Semah with friends:

Baruch Abraham

Masja Austen

Peter Baren

Jom Semah

Camera & editing: Bob Schoo