An original stage work: Show Your Wound: the Death and Times of Joseph Beuys March 11 - April 10, 2004 Performances: Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 P.M.   And an exhibition: Joseph Beuys: Multiple Messages March 11 - April 17, 2004   At 7:30 P.M. on Thursday, March 11, Track 16 Gallery will present the first of 15 performances of an original stage work, Show Your Wound: the Death and Times of Joseph Beuys, conceived and directed by Tom Patchett. Show Your Wound: the Death and Times of Joseph Beuys will be performed each Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 7:30 P.M. for five consecutive weeks, concurrent with the exhibition Joseph Beuys: Multiple Messages, featuring over 150 works by the artist. There will be two preview performances of Show Your Wound, March 9 and 10. Seating is limited to 80 audience members. Admission is free but reservations are required.   This hour-long multimedia production, staged amid a landscape of works by Beuys, will employ historical videos, film footage and photographs, original and existing writings and a cast of gifted actors to weave together the dramatic story of one of the 20th century's most provocative and controversial contemporary artists. Beuys, born in Krefeld, Germany, was 12 years old when Hitler came to power, and 18 when called upon to be trained and later serve as a dive-bomber pilot in the Luftwaffe. Shot down on the Eastern Front, wounded three times, and ultimately captured by the British, Beuys returned to Germany after the war, where he decided to become an artist and dedicate his life/work to changing the political and economic structure of society. He became a professor at the Dusseldorf Art Academy, later a founder of the German Green Party. In 1964 Beuys burst into the international art spotlight with a series of enigmatic but mesmerizing actions under the umbrella of the Fluxus group. Throughout his career as an activist, artist and public figure, Beuys was both vilified (by his critics) and deified (by his followers) until his death in 1986.   Again, seating for the stage work is limited to 80 audience members. Admission is free but reservations are required. Please call Cindy Ojeda at (310) 264-4678 to reserve your seat. Regular gallery hours for Joseph Beuys: Multiple Messages remain Tuesday through Saturday from 11 to 6 P.M.