Object Devised Partly to Conceal a Scene on Video:
A blackened metal plate in the shape of a television screen was fastened on a tripod. This was then set up in the middle of a large city, among the pedestrian traffic. First, the camera photographed the whole scene. Then the metal plate was “zoomed” into the field of vision. This was continued until only a small margin was left around the edges of the plate. It was shot from this angle for approximately 10 minutes. The result was that a zone of Quietness, of nonactivity, was established in the center of the picture. This caused the movement around the edges to be seen more consciously. Then the first situation was repeated, as an aid to memory.
• By Reiner Ruthenbeck. (1972-74, 10 mins, b&w, tape courtesy of the artist)

X-Projection
derives its name from its means of production: a light-source was mounted on an automobile. During the drive through the town at night, this projected a gigantic cross against the rows of houses, trees, bridges, and so on. Street lanterns and illuminated advertising leave traces of overexposure on the tape.
• By Knoebel. Photographed by Gerry Schum. (1972, 40 mins, b&w, tape courtesy of the artist)

The action Eurasian Staff
was performed for the first time in February and March, 1967, in the Galerie Nachst St. Stephan, Vienna, although the present production took place in the White Wide Space Gallery, Antwerp, in 1968. In it, Joseph Beuys blocks up a corner of the gallery with fat, wedges felt-covered angle pieces between floor and ceiling, and builds up (in this way) a “room” of approximately 3 X 3 m. Then the “Eurasian Staff” (a copper pole 3.64 m. long, bent into a U-form at the end) is unpacked from a canvas roll and Beuys gestures with it, while reciting: “Plastic head, moving head, the great insulator.” The action is accompanied by the organ music of the composer Henning Christiansen.
• By Joseph Beuys. (1968, 20 mins, b&w, tape courtesy of the Goethe Institute)