Enterprise 18.11.72, 18:05:16 Uhr, 1973

This edition features a photograph taken by Michael Ruetz, depicting the Beuys family watching the science fiction TV series Starship Enterprise. At the time, the family lived at Drakeplatz 4 in Düsseldorf, where their apartment and studio functioned as a shared space for work and life. Beuys covered the lens of the camera embedded in the lid of the zinc box with a felt disc, echoing his action Filz-TV, in which he obscured a television screen with felt. With this gesture, he responds to the "mechanical" gaze of the camera, transforming its outward view into an inward one through the insulating properties of felt. Inside the zinc box, two objects are mounted in the double strategy of parallel processes often employed by Beuys, both engaging with the act of seeing: television itself, the family captured by the camera and the photographer's eye, who in turn watch a film set in the future, and a handy box camera, whose function is altered by covering its lense, shifting its role from capturing an image to questioning the nature of vision itself.