Celtic + ~~~~~, 1971
Linen box containing a Super 8 film, b/w, 25 with sound track b 10 photographs b/w 50 x 40 cm ea. c bottle with gelatin sealed with beeswax 16.5 x 8.5 cm Ø (6½ x 3¼ in dia.). Box: Stamped with brown paint, 41 x 52.5 x 10 cm. (The edition first came in a cardboard box; only the last part of the edition came in a linen box as shown here, but many of the earlier cardboard boxes were later exchanged against the linen one.) Edition: 100, signed and numbered on label in box.
This edition contains the documentation of the performance Celtic + ~~~~~ in Basel, civil defense bunker, April 5, 1971, as well as a small bottle filled with gelatine, which Joseph Beuys used during the action and which has since liquefied.
