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Description of the project
Dr Christian Weikop: project leader and acknowledgements
Richard Demarco: profile of the SGA organiser
Alexander Hamilton: profile of a SGA student assistant
SGA50 and the Edinburgh International Book Festival
Beuys oak planting ceremony with Richard Demarco, Christian Weikop, and Juan Cruz
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First floor plan
1. Klaus Rinke’s water installation at the entrance to ECA Main Building
2. Stefan Wewerka’s ‘Bentwood Chair Action’ on the grand staircase with Klaus Rinke smashing chair
3. Blinky Palermo making his wall painting Blue/Yellow/White/Red
4. Daniel Spoerri reading from his menu for The Banana Trap Dinner in C.26 (23 August 1970)
5. Firemen from Edinburgh Fire Station outside Gotthard Graubner’s ‘Mist Room’ (Homage to Turner) in studio C.16 (24 Aug. 1970)
6. Joseph Beuys holding up a blackboard during his performance event Celtic (Kinloch Rannoch) Scottish Symphony, in studio C.08
7. Exhibition visitors in ECA studio C.07 with Joseph Beuys's installation, Arena
8. Repurposed poster used to promote the resumption of screenings after the police had confiscated films from Studio C.06
9. Installation of visual text works by Ferdinand Kriwet in ECA's Sculpture Court
10. Heinz Mack’s aluminium foil cross sculpture and telegram ‘Make my Absence Positive’ (1970) in studio C.04
11. Günther Uecker rigging up his ‘banging door’ installation in studio C.03
12. Günther Uecker in his Sharp Corridor at ECA
13. Joseph Beuys, The Pack, installed in the Sculpture Department Corridor
14. Reiner Ruthenbeck’s ‘Highland’ installation being assembled by Ruthenbeck and ECA students in studio E.21
15. Studio E.22 was used for the largest group display of artists
16. Visitors to Strategy: Get Arts (1970) inspecting work along the first-floor south corridor (from E.22 to E.25)
17. Paintings by Gerhard Richter being moved by student assistants in preparation for Strategy: Get Arts
18. Gotthard Graubner’s paintings (Cushion Pictures) and Erwin Heerich’s construction in studio E.25
19. Cordelia Oliver among glass containers by Erich Reusch and photographs by Bernd and Hilla Becher
20. Hans Alvermann’s assemblage Homage to Goldwater - Gott mit uns (1964) and concentric text works by Ferdinand Kriwet
21. Student helpers and Düsseldorf SGA curator Jürgen Harten in front of Sigmar Polke’s paintings Solutions I-IV (1969)
22. Adolf Luther’s Focusing Room and Karl Gerstner's Times Square
23. Peter Brüning’s Diversion paintings on north corridor, with Ferdinand Kriwet’s banners
24. Günter Weseler rigging up his Breathing Objects (1970) in studio E.11
25. Joseph Beuys on Salisbury Crags, Holyrood Park, Edinburgh, on 7 May 1970
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Dr Christian Weikop has led the SGA50 project.
Dr
Christian
Weikop
Senior Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary German Art
Edinburgh College of Art
The University of Edinburgh
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c.weikop@ed.ac.uk
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Dr Christian Weikop's staff profile
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The book: Strategy: Get Arts 35 Artists Who Broke the Rules (Studies in Photography)
This article was published on
16 Nov, 2021
