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THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 67. ASSPLAY
Steve ReinkeRecently my psychiatrist dismantled his practice in favour of becoming a baker. I hoped to get the brown leather couch. Instead he gave me the rough notes for a paper he’d been thinking of working on “Assplay: Anal Eroticism as Transformative Agent in Disney’s Pinocchio” in hope I would complete it....
AND [BACK
Peter DownsbroughAND [BACK ‘plays’ a complex ‘game’ with the words AND and BACK, where the word BACK sometimes functions as indicator, sometimes as trigger, sometimes as a comment on what is happening on-screen...
1937 [FIRST CHAPTER OF INSTALLATION, ENGLISH 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...
HEIMAT
Sam PeetersRight-wing populism is spreading through Western Europe like wildfire. It is most popular in quiet, white neighbourhoods where people are shielded from different cultures and lifestyles.In this unscripted documentary, Sam Peeters portrays an ironic caricature of life in the Flemish suburbs, which reflects the current European zeitgeist....
LA VIE… CAMP DE TRAVAIE ! - SPLATCH !
Jacques LizèneIf art entails first and foremost a playful activity, trying to stretch the borders of the useful and the profitable, Lizène is beyond any doubt the master of the useless. In ‘La Vie.....
HANDS/MUSIQUE DE TABLE (PART OF PAS DE DANSE)
Thierry De Mey - Octavio IturbeA composition is for six hands on three tables. Three percussionists perform different movements with both hands on the tables, which they use as instruments. From these very simple actions - (e.g...
AFTER ALL
Charley CaseIn ‘(After all)’ the faces of several people are mounted one after the other, partly illuminated by flickering fires. An elderly man appears on the screen every now and then, holding a torch. The sound in the background reminds of dark shamanist throat-singing and the video as a whole gives the impression of an age-old ritual in a primeval forest....
Blanket Apology, Adam Leech, 2010 © the artist
BLANKET APOLOGY
Adam LeechBlanket Apology focuses on strategies of communication that are used when public figures give public apologies. Like Speech Bubble (2008), Blanket Apology is a dialogue between a man and a woman...
KOMFORT ÜBER ALLES!
Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven‘Komfort Über Alles!’ is a video about Van Kerckhoven’s installation with the same title, a work that she displayed in the Warande in Turnhout in December 1980. The artist guides the viewer through the exhibition room. With numbers and arrows she shows the visitors which route they should follow...
The Greenhouse Effect, Peter Finnemore, 2005. Courtesy the Artist
THE GREENHOUSE EFFECT
Peter FinnemoreThe greenhouse effect is a process by which thermal radiation is absorbed by atmospheric greenhouse gases, and is re-radiated in all directions: this results in an elevation of the average surface temperature. Closed inside a greenhouse, Finnemore's troops dance on the rhythm of a lounge score and re-radiate an uncontrollable delight....
