COYOTE III

Published by: Edition Bierammer, Austria, 2011
Vinyl, LP
Limited edition of 150 copies
Paste-on front cover with rubber-stamped back cover
Includes double-sided black & white insert
Language: N/A
Condition: Very Good. Minor handling signs consistent with archival storage; cover and vinyl remain clean and well preserved overall.

Joseph Beuys & Nam June Paik Coyote III With Pianovariation 1984 captures a rare and historically charged moment of live collaboration between two central figures of postwar avant-garde practice. Recorded in Tokyo on June 2, 1984, this LP documents a simultaneous performance in which Beuys’ ritualistic vocal presence intersects with Paik’s radical approach to piano, sound, and time.

Rather than operating as a traditional musical recording, the work functions as a performative document an imprint of action, gesture, and conceptual intent. Beuys’ Coyote III continues his exploration of myth, shamanism, and symbolic language, while Paik’s Pianovariation 1984 destabilizes musical structure through repetition, interruption, and improvisation. Played together, the two compositions collapse into a single, dense sonic environment where authorship dissolves and collaboration becomes the primary medium.

The performance reflects the shared intellectual ground between Beuys and Paik, both deeply connected to Fluxus and to the idea of art as an active, transformative force rather than a static object. Sound here becomes sculpture in time an ephemeral event preserved only through its trace.

Issued decades later in a strictly limited unofficial edition, this record stands as an important archival artifact for collectors of experimental sound, performance documentation, and conceptual art history. It preserves not just a recording, but the residue of an encounter between two artists who fundamentally reshaped how art could be made, experienced, and understood.