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4 POINTS LIMITÉS
Jacques Louis Nyst'4 points limités / La caméra est reliée au magnétoscope par un câble de 100 mètres’ is one of Jacques-Louis Nyst’s earlier experiences with the medium and one of the few videos of the first Nyst period not to use a canvas-like white surface as a background...
THE CONTAINERTAPES
Els DietvorstIn the summer of 2001 the artists organisation NICC placed a container on the Fontainas square in the heart of Brussels. For one week Els Dietvorst used the container for auditions. 200 people auditioned in five days! This video is a report of three hours of these auditions...
HÉROS
Bernard GigounonLittle experiences of everyday, an acceleration of the yield of a copy machine, a tribute to Jean Renoir, a videogame, 24 image-seconds piled on top of each other and the results of an encounter of the children of the Marollen with the medium video....
THE HUNDRED VIDEOS
Steve ReinkeEver attuned to the conceits of the art world, Steve Reinke’s - perhaps ironic - aim was to complete a hundred videos before the year 2000, his thirty-sixth birthday. They would constitute his work as a young artist. In 1997, well ahead of schedule, Reinke had finished ’The Hundred Videos’...
BUNCH OF FLOWERS
Messieurs DelmotteMessieurs Delmotte, as always dressed in a dandy-like costume, holds a bouquet of yellow roses. What does he have in mind for them? A few seconds later it becomes clear. Violently he starts spinning them around with the help of a drill. Delmotte keeps on spinning and spinning, until the roses are completely demolished. This work is part of the series Brokendown Dream...
The Roof, James Nares, 1975. Courtesy the Artist and Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York
THE ROOF
James NaresThe precariousness yet simplicity of the black and white video ‘Roof’ shows Nares encased at the neck by a swinging wooden plank that seems to whip his unseen body over the edge of a roof. By employing an illusionist trick with his camera, Nares’ seemingly disembodied head drifts eerily through lower Manhattan...
AUTO-FIEBER
Wolf VostellA registration of Vostell’s legendary 1973 happening/ performance ‘Auto-Fieber’, an assignment of Neuer Berliner Kunstverein and Akademie der Künste. For this happening at a Berlin open terrain, cars were placed in close rows...
KUNST ALS KRITIEK. WANNEER IS KUNST GEEN KRITIEK? 5. WANNEER DE MEESTER ZEGT WAT KUNST IS
Jef CornelisPart of a series of short themed sketches surrounding the question “When is Art NOT Criticism?”, ’When the master says what art is’ shows images of a drawing-lesson in a secondary school, where ‘creativity’ and ‘talent’ are measured and adjusted making use of social norms and subjective values...
Avant-garde citizens: Janneke’s story, 2007, Libia Castro & Ólafur Ólafsson © the artists
AVANT-GARDE CITIZENS: JANNEKE’S STORY
Libia Castro - Ólafur ÓlafssonWith families and holiday-makers passing her as she relates her tale, Janneke’s story seems out of place on a beach. Janneke is a Dutch activist who, after protesting against the treatment of interned immigrants, was herself imprisoned under the Immigration Act for refusing to present her name and passport...
FACE À FACE (PART OF PAS DE DANSE)
Eric Pauwels‘Face à face’ is considered by many to be nothing more than a “simple recording” of a performance by Michèle Anne De Mey. The spirit of the performance is certainly sublimely reproduced, but there is more. ‘Face à face’ is to some extent the synthesis of Pauwels’s earlier experiments...
