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Fisher’s narrative embeds upon two complementary, London installations by Joseph Beuys. The narrative is encouraged by Beuys’ arrangement of his works and is stimulated by the show production of meaning the viewer participates in through research. Beuys’ aesthetic and non-aesthetic functions encourage the viewer to innovate in this research and thinking. This tension between the non-aesthetic and aesthetic promotes an imaginative meaning in his work. It is a meaning that never fixes but allows the enigma, that Beuys’ work often creates on first viewing, to remain as a potent residue for meaning to accrete. Beuys’ explorations compress aesthetic and non-aesthetic functions and transformed this compression into sculpture with social resonance. Allen Fisher's work in performance, painting, and writing shifts quantum mechanics into situationist proposals. This reading was presented by Artspeak and co-produced by the Kootenay School of Writing.
