The document discusses Joseph Beuys' vision of social sculpture where every person becomes an artist and sculptor that helps shape society. Beuys believed that only through radically redefining art to dismantle repressive social systems could art become the evolutionary power needed to build a new social organism. This would fulfill the goals of participation emphasized by movements like Fluxus and Happenings. Art would thus be used as a tool to build community and social change through collaboration.

2. building art through community
building community through art

3. Only on condition of a radical widening of
definition will it be possible for art and activities
related to art to provide evidence that art is now
the only evolutionary-revolutionary power. Only art
is capable of dismantling the repressive effects of
a senile social system to build a SOCIAL
ORGANISM AS A WORK OF ART. This most
modern art discipline – Social Sculpture/ Social
Architecture – will only reach fruition when every
living person becomes a creator, a sculptor, or
architect of the social organism. Only then would
the insistence on participation of the action art of
FLUXUS and Happening be fulfilled.
– Joseph Beuys

4. collaboration: (n) 1. the act of working
with another or others on a joint project
radical: (adj) . thoroughgoing or
extreme, especially as regards change
from accepted or traditional forms: 2.
favoring drastic political, economic, or
social reforms: radical ideas; radical
and anarchistic ideologues.

5. • A happening, events based

10. Temple of Flux

11. • Temple at night image

12. • Temple burn

34. The OMG Factor
• O – Oooooh, the Awe factor
• M – Me, Connecting to self
• G – Group, Connecting to Others

35. Platform of Permission
• Gratitude
• Support
• Access
• Vulnerability
• Experimentation
• Listening
• Scaffolding
• Horizontal Leadership
• Patience

38. Temple of Flux

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