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11DE BIËNNALE MIDDELHEIM ANTWERPEN, 6 JUNI - 3 OKT. '71

Jef Cornelis
Two programs on the 11th Middelheim Sculpture Biennial in 1971. 07.06.1971 – 4’55 Official opening of the Biennal. Pictures of sculptures, mainly American and Dutch. The curator of the Dutch section, Eugène Terwind, has installed sculptures in a garden created for the occasion by Dutch artists, and that looks like an urban district. 15.06...

DE MUSICORUM INFELICITATE

Walter Marchetti
"As Walter Marchetti told to the producers of De Musicorum infelicitate, i.e., The Unhappiness of Music, this will probably be his last music work, but this is not the only point making this edition a very special one...

DAS HAUS

Aglaia Konrad
Das Haus is a new work that deepens the exploration of sculptural architecture that Aglaia Konrad conducted with the series of 16mm films Concrete and Samples...
Les artistes, 2010, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist Les artistes, 2010, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist

LES ARTISTES

Angel Vergara
In ’Les artistes’, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels and painter Antoine Wiertz make an appearance by means of a historical performance. Video clips of historical documents and catalogues are interspersed with recordings of contemporary artists, like Jan Fabre. In this way, Vergara creates a historically layered perspective on ’the Belgian artist’...
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TOURNOIEMENT 2

Michel François
A man is carrying a beam on which the camera seems to be attached. The floor and his shoes are squeaking. The camera rotates around and around the man....
Cementerio Figaredo, 2008 Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist(s) & producer(s) Cementerio Figaredo, 2008 Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist(s) & producer(s)

CEMENTERIO FIGAREDO

Angel Vergara
With his brush, Angel Vergara traces the cinematic image of his family’s tomb in the cemetery of Figaredo-Mieres (ES). The artist was born in Mieres....

RAW MATERIALS

Justin Bennett
Based on personal memories reaching way back into time, Raw Materials creates a resonant patchwork with fragments of field recordings originating from divergent cities like Fribourg (Switzerland), Barcelona or Beirut. With a pitch-black image as canvas – a technique that actively shifts the attention towards the sound – snow-white text lines appear one by one in typewriter style...

VIDÉO RELATIONNELLE (1973 - 1974): TAPISSERIE

Jacques Lennep
The camera shows a fixed shot of a banal wallpaper with a flower-print. Offscreen somebody shouts 'Vive la peinture!'....
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NA ALLE VLEES: PORTRET VAN EEN WERKWIJZE (JACQ VOGELAAR)

Jef Cornelis
A portrait of the Dutch author and essay writer Jacq Firmin Vogelaar (1944), on the occasion of his ’All Meat’ (1980), a book aiming at nothing less than a thorough deconstruction of recognizable reality in order to set up a new construction with the debris. Vogelaar discusses the philosophy of the fragment, utopia, meat, (linguistic) machines, Francis Bacon...