The Animals Were Never Alone
a Choose Your Own Adventure Essay
by Maria Lepistö and the Animal Sound Society
You are looking at a photo of the artist Joseph Beuys and a wild coyote.

It is taken during his performance I like America and America Likes Me in which he locked himself into one of the rooms of the René Block Gallery for three days, eight hours a day. It was 1974, New York, and the audience watched them together through a grid fence. What strikes you is that Beuys framed himself and his coyote as protagonists in a time-based story. He died on a Thursday, in his home in Dusseldorf.

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