Germany is on the brink of decisive upheaval. The artistic liberation of Germany is taking its course exactly 64 years after the military liberation. We carried out a theses attack on the German Bundestag: ten theses were posted on the main portal of the Bundestag. The queue in front of it was then involuntarily sworn in as Germany's future heroes and heroines. Their task: ‘Think more often about beauty, splendour and greatness than about parties, cars and football.’ The post-heroic state is now officially over.
The inauguration began at 11.30 a.m. and was followed by a press conference. As none of the well-known German car manufacturers were prepared to provide us with a limousine for the inauguration, we turned up at the future place of work and activity on horseback (Epithymia, Thymos and Logos). The agenda of the Centre for Political Beauty: to highlight the lack of vision and concept of the political parties, to pit the power of man against his powerlessness and to exploit the historically unique opportunity of the visionary ‘gap’. In other words, to forge an alliance of the arts that helps politicians to realise the highest form of all the arts: good and beautiful politics.
First shock: the main portal of the Bundestag is made of glass and steel. Little can be done with the hammer and nails we brought with us. A modern reformer can no longer hammer his theses into the Bundestag.
Björn Höcke has praised the Center for Political Beauty as a »terrorist group«. Get close to the action and become an accomplice to a terrorist organization so far sadly recognized only by Höcke, Erdogan, and the Free State of Thuringia! As an accomplice you will make an invaluable contribution to inciting public unrest in the service of aggressive humanism. Nowhere else will you receive more unrest and dissent for every donated Euro.
»Activists occupied the Reichstag steps for 45 minutes this morning!«
»An attack on the Bundestag - with theses!«
»They said they were fighting against the displacement of beauty in the country.«
»Heroes are the cement of all social life. We want to try an experiment with immediate effect. To this end, we would like to announce the founding of a platform for action to make Germany a centre for political beauty.
A kind of thinking, feeling and action factory for people who long for more than a car, a house or a paid holiday. For those who long for beauty, greatness and perfection.«
Interview with Bill van Bergen about the gap between art and politics, Joseph Beuys and the end of history.
