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KUNST ALS KRITIEK. WANNEER IS KUNST GEEN KRITIEK? 1. WANNEER HET WOORD “KUNST“ TOT KOPEN AANZET

Jef Cornelis
Part of a series of short themed sketches surrounding the question “When is Art NOT Criticism?”, ’When the word ’art’ urges someone to buy’ is a report on a painting and framework factory, producing 300.000 oil paintings each year. Outworkers produce 50 pieces a day...

MADAME PAUL SIX, UNE FERMIÈRE QUI A DES LETTRES

Jacques Lennep
Video, apart from photography and holography, was but one of the media Lennep made use of during the 1970s, as he was adding on to his ‘museum of men’. His human models were derived from all layers of the populations, but they shared a common obsession for collecting things or, at the very, least an unusual passion...

Two Girls Downtown Iowa, Summers Elaine, 1973. Courtesy the Artist

TWO GIRLS DOWNTOWN IOWA

Elaine Summers
In ‘Two Girls Downtown Iowa’ two women rush toward each other on a crowded pavement at the slowest of slow-motion speeds. Summer creates a remarkable conflation of kinetic effect and almost painterly moment-by-moment composition...

Panorama, 2007, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist

PANORAMA

Angel Vergara
We see a panorama of Castelló, and while the camera gradually revolves around the city, Vergara follows what he sees with his brush....

THE TROPHY

Ruben Bellinkx
In the film "The Trophy" we see a deer’s head, which is alive instead of stuffed, hanging on the wall. The deer stares ahead motionless, making it difficult to distinguish whether it is alive or stuffed. Suddenly we can see the other side of the wall. There the same deer stands alone in a bare room with its head disappearing into the wall...

Madame going to a dogshow, Ria Pacquée, 1988. Courtesy the Artist

MADAME GOING TO A DOG SHOW

Ria Pacquée
During the second half of the eighthies Pacquée created her ’Madame’- works, in which she takes on the character of a lonely middle-aged lady. In this case the camera records Madame’s presence at a dog show. Madame walks around the hall where the event’s taking place. She looks at pictures of different breeds of dogs and takes some brochures...

DE MENS IN HET DIER

Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven
‘De mens in het dier’ (‘The human person within the animal’) is somewhere between film and computer animation. The concept of the work is based on the book ‘Laws of thought’, by the 19th century English mathematician George Boole...

BIENNALE MIDDELHEIM 1971

Jef Cornelis
Original broadcast date: 07/06/1971 Content: 00’00" Leader. 00’07" Titles. 00’15" Official opening of the Middelheim Sculpture Biennial. 00’32" Pictures of sculpture, mainly American and Dutch. 03’20" The curator of the Dutch section, Eugène Terwind, has installed sculptures in a garden created for the occasion, and that looks like an urban district...

OUTLINE

Peter Downsbrough
The CD-rom Outline opens onto a three-dimensional space containing several volumes. Each volume gives access to a different work category: books, maquette, dice, sculpture, prints, notes, photographs, a film, sound pieces, projects. Texts and documentation are also included...