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SILVERLEAF
Adam LeechAdam Leech produces videos with a narrative touch. The protagonists of these stories are usually archetypical inhabitants of ‘the American suburbia’ we are familiar with from countless television series. Their preferred pastimes are shopping, parties and interior design - in short, everything that has to do with the aestheticization of the everyday...
DE KUNSTENAARS VLAKBIJ / LES ARTISTES À CÔTÉ
Jan Vromman“De Kunstenaars Vlakbij” (“The artists nearby”) is a series of portraits of unknown artists, produced on the occasion of the exhibition “De Eerste Trede” (“The First Stile”) at Argos Centre for Art & Media (2003). The starting point of this film was the wonderment about the basic idea that so many people are occupied with art in a serious manner...
A BOY NEEDS A FRIEND
Steve ReinkeSteve Reinke ostensibly turns to the subjects of friendship and intimacy in "A Boy Needs A Friend", in particular investigating the notion of queer Nietzschean friendship...
VENTRILOQUIST BIRD
Messieurs DelmotteA short video-performance in which Messieurs Delmotte, standing in a park, lips the sound of a bird....
TIGER SKIN
Messieurs DelmotteWhat that thing moving in the grass? Is it a man? Is it a tiger? Is it a duvet cover with a print of a tiger? Than why and how is it moving? Messieurs Delmotte fools around with our perception in yet another of his idiosyncratic short performances. This work is part of the series The Mental Reason Vol. 1...
Fumée, 1987, Angel Vergara Santiago. © the artist(s)
FUMÉE
Angel VergaraVergara filmed smoke. However, he did not indicate where the smoke was coming from. During filming, only the smoke itself was caught on screen, against the background of a blue sky. The motif of smoke can be interpreted as a reference to the works of René Magritte and Marcel Broodthaers...
MY NAME IS KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN
Steve ReinkeThis is the atomic age; the material itself must be part of the creative act. One no longer forms a given material, one must also create the material.” Loosely adapted from interviews Stockhausen gave in the late 60s and early 70s. Vera Frenkel voices the composer. DNA structures, molecular life and astral projections fuse in synesthetic visions rooted in aurality....
