{"id":31142,"title":"The Orwell Leg – Trousers for the 21st Century","dimensions":"","date_begin":null,"material":"Multiple of denim Jeans with holes cut in the knees","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":118,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":2,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Collection M HKA","cached_tag_list":"","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"BK009092","stream_count_app":28,"permalink":"the-orwell-leg-trousers-for-the-21st-century","description_ca":"","short_description_ca":"","description_it":"","short_description_it":"","cached_primary_asset_url":"http://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/085/774/medium_500/_WIM2040crop.jpg?1661176246","cached_actor_names":"Joseph Beuys","hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":"","short_description_uk":"","description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":true,"category":{"en":"Multiple","nl":"Multipel","fr":"Multiple"},"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/085/774/large/_WIM2040crop.jpg?1661176246","poster_credits":"©Joseph Beuys. Photo: Wim Van Eesbeek","translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eJoseph Beuys participated in Nam June Paik\u0026rsquo;s renowned satellite \u0026lsquo;installation\u0026rsquo; \u003cem\u003eGood Morning Mr. Orwell \u003c/em\u003eon New Year\u0026rsquo;s Day of 1984. An international event, Beuys undertook an action live from the Centre Pompidou in Paris, with two pianos, two Turkish pianists and his \u003cem\u003eThe Orwell Leg \u0026ndash;Trousers for the 21st Century\u003c/em\u003e. The trousers have a hole cut out of the front right-hand knee, and second hole cut out at the back of the left-hand knee. During the performance, he stated: \u003cem\u003e\u0026ldquo;This is the Orwell leg, trousers of the 21st century. Everybody in the world should make these trousers themselves, to struggle against world-wide materialism and repression especially on the young\u0026rdquo;\u003c/em\u003e. The trousers were to become another edition of Beuys, of which M HKA has one as part of its collection.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"fr","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"ru","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"de","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"es","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"el","short_description":"","description":""}],"actors":[{"id":150,"name":"Joseph Beuys","category":{"en":"Creator","nl":"Vervaardiger","fr":"Créateur"}}]}