COLLECTION

DIE LEICHE IM BAYERISCHEM WALT

Harald Thys
'The Body in the Bavarian Woods' tells the story of the happy life of a farmer and his cows. Each month the farmer takes three of his cows to the butcher in the village. The farmer lives a carefree life and is very proud of his cows. Then, one day, fate strikes and the cows become ill because the region is stricken by a lasting drought...

THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 93. MANIFESTATIONS/JOUISSANCE

Steve Reinke
After a sharp blow to the head, one sometimes gains extraordinary powers. I’ve lately been struck by the gift of superior critical abilities in analyzing Hollywood films....

Test Tube, General Idea, 1979. Courtesy Electronic Art Intermix (EAI), New York

TEST TUBE

General Idea
General Idea’s Test Tube uses news magazine, sit com and advertising formats, with a barrage of special effects to create a futuristic self-portrait, a prediction of the artist in the media-saturated universe of the eighties,’ stated the original press release from 1979 by De Appel...

THE LAND WAS ALREADY OCCUPIED (THE FUTURE)

Marie Voignier
For the Ateliers de Rennes 2012, and in keeping with the spirit of Les Prairies, Marie Voignier has put herself in a real-life situation, that of looking at a building plot and investigating the different ways of approaching construction on it...

WER IMMER HOFFT STIRBT SINGEND

Alexander Kluge
Hope forms part of the genetic makeup of humanity. Hope is also part of evolution: it is part of the essence that bolsters the growth, progression, and development of plants, animals, and minerals. Scientists describe this process as ‘primeval trust’...

1937 [FILM, FRENCH VERSION]

Nora Martirosyan
"Two chapters, two time periods, one story. On the one hand, 1937, at the height of the Stalinist purges in Erevan, in the soviet Armenia, the year of the arrest of Nora Dabagian’s father who was a political dissident. On the other hand, 2006, the circumstantial story of this arrest related by the old woman, affectionally known as Baboulia, who was a very young girl in the 1930ies...

Text, Ria Pacquée, 2011. Courtesy the Artist

TEXT

Ria Pacquée
Pictures of a slide show transferred to video of announcements, graffiti, brand names and random texts in different parts of the world and in a wide range of languages. Together they function as a touching, often humorous and sometimes absurd mosaïque on daily life and human activity....

BEAUTY PLUS PITY

Cooper Battersby - Emily Vey Duke
The contemporary fables of Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby propose that existence is abject, farcical, and messy. In their richly textured videos, Duke and Battersby employ live action footage, scavenged images, and simple animations to create episodic structures that evince a simultaneously utopian and dystopian world view...

DANSE (BEAUBOURG EVENT 02)

Luc Ferrari
One-sided release. "'Dance' was part of a sound/visual installation called 'Labyrinthe De Violence'...

TWEEDE INTERNATIONAAL SALON DER AVANT-GARDE GALERIJEN LAUSANNE

Jef Cornelis
On his way back from Venice, Jef Cornelis stopped in Lausanne to film the secon International Salon of Pilot Galleries organized at the Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts on the initiative of its director and curator René Berger. The idea for it had occurred to him three years earlier: "I had this totally naive idea: how to get to know contemporary art on an ongoing basis.....