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THE LIPS OF OSIRIS ANI
Anne-Mie Van KerckhovenA film about love, identity and re-incarnation, all trapped in the cycle of evolution. ‘The Lips of Osiris Ani’ was originally made to accompany a live performance by Club Moral in which Danny Devos shouts, his head under water, the sound amplified by a hydrophone...
PARKING 2004
Aurore Dal MasAurore Dal Mas is fascinated with the vocabulary that is used in popular music, as a peculiar reflection by and on mankind. Before this she made ‘Show Room’, a pseudo-autobiographical video clip based on a song by Julio Iglesias. The sweet, sensuous words take on a preposterous and cynical undertone in the mouth of a postiche chansonnier...
TOOLS FOR THE REVOLUTION
Andrea GeyerA text calling for action appears over the animation of an opened, receptive hand. However, the music - Eric Satie’s well-known ’Gymnopedie No. 1’ – gets stuck, begins over and over again and so never evolves. "(.....
QUIBERON, BRETAGNE, FRANCE, ON A DOLMEN
Anne-Mie Van KerckhovenWhen visiting a Dolmen in Brittany, France, Van Kerckhoven asked Danny Devos to lay down naked on his stomach with his legs open, a piece of wood tied between his ankles, his hands tied behind his back. A secret performance to pay an hommage to the time they met and when Devos did the performance 'I Wanna be Injured' at the end of Van Kerckhoven's exhibition '=Basic' in Art Something, Amsterdam...
ONE IN TWO
Charley CaseHitler and Jesus? Through a peep-hole that gradually increases in size we see a man with a Hitler-like moustache screaming and moving frantically. Distorted vocal noises sound in the background. ‘Hitler’ gets unshaven – everything is played backwards – revealing a Christ-like figure with a beard...
THE DRESS
Ken KoblandTHE DRESS is a projection prop created for a performance piece at the Art Institute in 1984. It was installed in March 2021, suspended in front of a building on the Bowery as both a memorial to my grandmother, a Hungarian immigrant and master seamstress, and to the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire of 1911, which occurred a few blocks north of this site. (EJay Sims) ...
OOG EN HAND ALS UITDRUKKING 02
Jef CornelisFor the art programme 'Openbaar Kunstbezit' Cornelis made two essayistic television reports in 1972 about the use of hands and eyes in the visual arts, “a way to look and to communicate.” Once more, 'Oog en hand als uitdrukking 02' ('Eye and hand as expression 02') is particularly free with regard to its format, bearing in mind the television standards of the time...
BUENOS AIRES
Jef CornelisBuenos Aires, Baires or B.A., where the corridors of the National Bank were once piled high with heaps of gold, is trying to awaken from a number of simultaneous nightmares (the colonels’ regime, inflation, terror). The visual artist César Paternosto (La Plata, 1931) left Baires in 1964, because he felt he was banging his head, like a balloon, on the ceiling...
