VIDÉO RELATIONNELLE (1973 - 1974): PHOTO
Jacques LennepThe camera scans the image of a picture of a young man on which is written the word 'photo'....
VIDÉO À LA CHAÎNE II - ARCHI / SIMULATION
Joëlle de La Casinière - Michel Bonnemaison - Jacques Lederlin - Enrique Ahriman‘archi / simulation’ is one of the video clips of the ’Video à la chaîne’ series, in which Bonnemaison and de la Casinière ironically deconstruct the imagery of television. Images of famous buildings are mixed with random TV blurps...
VIDÉO À LA CHAÎNE II - BABY-SITTING
Michel Bonnemaison - Joëlle de La Casinière - Jacques Lederlin - Enrique Ahriman’baby-sitting’ is one of the video clips of the ’Video à la chaîne’ series, in which the artists combine found footage with self-generated images. Images of a baby and of dolls that represent the mother and the father figures are combined with footage from TV stations...
VIDÉO À LA CHAÎNE II
Michel Bonnemaison - Jacques Lederlin - Joëlle de La CasinièreA number of structural modules (design and music) and a rule set are introduced to twenty-odd video artists; with these elements the artists were supposed to produce a video about an application of the video medium (surveillance, simulation, etc.)...
VIDÉO À LA CHAÎNE I
Joëlle de La Casinière - Michel BonnemaisonSome twenty video artists from the French school (among others Robert Cahen, Didier Bay, J.C. Bouvet, Yves le Marrec) are briefly portrayed in turns; they produce slogan-like comments on the medium of video art....
VIDÉO-FIL
Jacques LennepIn his ‘relational’ video work Lennep investigates into art as an idiom and a structure; how to perceive art and the relationship between art and society. ‘Vidéo-fil’ is a recording of a performance. During a first act Lennep draws an uninterrupted, squiggly line on his face, with a black felt-tip, after which he envelops his head with tape...
VIDÉO À LA CHAÎNE II - ART ELECTRONIQUE
Michel Bonnemaison - Joëlle de La Casinière - Jacques Lederlin - Enrique AhrimanA weird and futuristicly dressed couple shows the viewer how to paint with videos. They display different techniques. This video by Michel Bonnemaison and Joëlle de La Casinière plays with the idea that video may have the same status as painting....
VIDÉO RELATIONNELLE (1973 - 1974): L'ESCARGOT
Jacques LennepAn image of a male performer holding a living and moving snail in front of his crotch....
VERSION ORIGINALE01
Joëlle de La Casinière - Michel BonnemaisonTwo Japanese actors read passages from ‘L’Empire des signes’ by Roland Barthes. His structural meditations on specific aspects of oriental culture – in this case specifically on the Japanese language and kitchen – are illustrated and substantiated by an entanglement of words, writing and image...
VIDÉO À LA CHAÎNE II - CATALOGUE
Michel Bonnemaison - Joëlle de La Casinière - Jacques LederlinImages of lamps with different shapes and colours. The sales representative makes it clear that the objects can be ordered through the catalogue. On the background bells resound and a telephone rings out....
VIDÉO À LA CHAÎNE II - PORNO
Michel Bonnemaison - Joëlle de La Casinière - Jacques Lederlin - Enrique AhrimanImages of porno movies alternate with random TV images of sport events, nature documentaries, military exercises and so on. The voice-over extols porno as the ultimate art form....
VIOLIN FASE
Eric Pauwels - Eric Pauwels - Eric PauwelsA solo in two movements; dance and camera. Eric Pauwels twirls the camera around the body of Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker. What we see is not the geometrical and minimalist choreographic structure, but a possessed woman, bathing in sweat, exploring the boundaries of physical exhaustion. A solo in two movements: the dance and the camera. Four uninterrupted takes...
VIDÉO À LA CHAÎNE II - FAST FOOD
Michel Bonnemaison - Joëlle de La Casinière - Jacques Lederlin - Enrique AhrimanThis video starts with a male voice-over telling us fast food is paradise. Images of hamburgers and drinks being prepared pop up on the split-screens, along with random TV images and a music video....
VIDÉO À LA CHAÎNE II - MARIAGE
Michel Bonnemaison - Joëlle de La Casinière - Jacques Lederlin - Enrique AhrimanOn the background a camera man suggests the viewer to record his or her marriage on video tape. Even if he is sad that the girl, of whom he’s recording images of her wedding dress, refused his proposal....
VEGETABLES ARE VEGETABLES
Messieurs DelmotteA short video performance where, against a background of an impressive landscape, sequentially a zucchini, a leek and a carrot – which are hung in front of the camera – are chopped in two by Messieurs Delmotte. This work is part of the series Unidentified Emoticon ...
VIDÉO À LA CHAÎNE II - LE PRÉSENTATEUR DE 20 CLIPS [20 X 30'']
Michel Bonnemaison - Jacques Lederlin - Enrique Ahriman - Joëlle de La CasinièreA newscaster announces each of the different video clips of the series ’Video à la chaîne’ separately....
VIDÉO À LA CHAÎNE II - ROBOTRON
Michel Bonnemaison - Joëlle de La Casinière - Jacques Lederlin - Enrique AhrimanA little robot figure appears as the new TV-idol....
VIDÉO RELATIONNELLE (1973 - 1974)
Jacques LennepThis compilation combines short video sequences, recorded in 1974 and 1975 by the CAP collective, making them the first to use video as an artistic medium of expression...
VIDÉO RELATIONNELLE (1973 - 1974): LA CIBLE
Jacques LennepA registration of a conceptual performance wherein the artist tries to shoot a bullseye, hanged up in a tree....
VIDÉO À LA CHAÎNE II - PORTRAIT DE FAMILLE
Michel Bonnemaison - Joëlle de La Casinière - Jacques Lederlin - Enrique AhrimanA salesman suggests the viewer to buy a video camera, to make family portraits with. A stream of images of family members appear on the screen....
VIDÉO RELATIONNELLE (1973 - 1974): COMPOSITION TRIANGULAIRE
Jacques LennepA short formal study on triangular images, shot in the woods and featuring the artist as a performer. The work is conceptual: the camera 'scans' the surroundings showing triangles formed by the legs of the artist, the branches of a tree, a stone, etcetera....
VIDÉO À LA CHAÎNE II - MAGNÉTOSCOPE
Michel Bonnemaison - Joëlle de La Casinière - Jacques Lederlin - Enrique AhrimanThe androgyn-looking sales man in this video clip tries to sell the viewer a device that can record the sounds and images of every television....
VIDÉO À LA CHAÎNE II - RÉPÉRAGE CAMBRIOLE
Michel Bonnemaison - Joëlle de La Casinière - Jacques Lederlin - Enrique AhrimanA male voice-over suggests that video has made the life of furniture makers easier and safer. Pieces of furniture, alluminated by tracking lights, are being recorded....
VIDÉO À LA CHAÎNE II - MONDRIAN
Michel Bonnemaison - Joëlle de La Casinière - Jacques Lederlin - Enrique AhrimanImages of the last painting Piet Mondriaan made, are reworked into a rhythmic video painting. A male voice-over praises this new way of painting to the sky, while the female voice-over tells a story about how she met Mondriaan some time before he died....
VIDÉO RELATIONNELLE (1973 - 1974): TV RÉALISME
Jacques LennepA television screen shows a pan of a park. Shortly it becomes clear that what we see actually is two performers carrying an 'empty' television set in the park and that the image is nature itself. An early experiment with the medium of television in the spirit of Nam June Paik or Wolf Vostell....
VIDÉO À LA CHAÎNE II - CLIP/ORDINATEUR
Michel Bonnemaison - Joëlle de La Casinière - Jacques Lederlin - Enrique AhrimanThis short video starts with images from a self-made computer clip. The male voice-over tries to sell the video clip kit to the viewers....
VROUW IN DE STRAAT
Karen VanderborghtA video collage with running texts, that quote influent female artists, and juxtapositions of home moving style footages, still images and an inventory of Brussels cinematographic memories. The result is a conversation with three generations of godmothers, pictured under the influence of the first two feminist waves. ...
VIVA
Karen VanderborghtThis film seems to be an ode to the free fall. It is moreover a mortuary cinematic card made by Vanderborght for a friend who jumped from his balcony in the village where he was born. So the memory of this village, this paradisiacal holiday resort of the filmmakers’ childhood, became more vacant than ever....
VERDURE OU LA LANGUE VERTE
Jacques LennepLennep’s fingers, painted green, appear between the shrubs. With his hand he makes gestures, of which the meaning is familiar to all. He then starts to paint the screen green, till the scene completely disappears....
VIDÉO RELATIONNELLE (1973 - 1974): L'AILE EN CAGE
Jacques LennepWe see the artist sitting in a garden watching a birdcage. Inside there is no bird however, but only a wing of a black bird. With this registration the artist brings homage to the surrealist painter René Magritte....
Vermischte Nachrichten, Alexander Kluge, 1986. copyright
VERMISCHTE NACHRICHTEN
Alexander KlugeVermischte Nachrichten (Miscellaneous News) are on the last page of the newspapers. This drama strings together vignettes of events taken from everyday newspaper headlines. These stories are the base line of the film and they complement one another by creating a context. In this way, Germans are shown in their reactions to World War II, minorities, and the elderly...
VIVE LA PEINTURE
Jacques LennepIn this short conceptual film by the Belgian pioneering video artist, Lennep films himself while he paints. We notice the canvas, the easel, the artist’s palette and his brushes, the artist in profile. However, on the white canvas no contours or colours appear...
VIDÉO RELATIONNELLE (1973 - 1974): DIALOGUE AVEC UNE CAMÉRA
Jacques LennepA mixture between a camera study and a performance wherein the artist communicates with the camera in sign language using flags to communicate his message....
VIDÉO À LA CHAÎNE II - ART SURVEILLANCE
Michel Bonnemaison - Joëlle de La Casinière - Jacques Lederlin - Enrique AhrimanImages of surveillance cameras combined with random television images, of for instance sport events and nature documentaries. The split screen images are accompanied by rhythmic music and a female voice-over. The video ironically exaggerates the aesthetic value of surveillance videos, which are to be considered as art forms....
VIDÉO À LA CHAÎNE II - VISIOPHONE
Michel Bonnemaison - Joëlle de La Casinière - Jacques Lederlin - Enrique AhrimanImages of people using a video phone, with which one can see the face of his caller, are pasted together with other image fragments. A male voice-over tells us this is the new toy for all ages, but warns us that lying is required when using it. Then a female voice-over talks about the threatening aspect of this video phone....
VIDÉO À LA CHAÎNE II - PRESSE TELERAMIQUE
Michel Bonnemaison - Joëlle de La Casinière - Jacques Lederlin - Enrique Ahriman’Presse teleramique’ presents a video press, the ultimate device allowing viewers to watch the press twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week....
VIDÉO À LA CHAÎNE II - TESTING
Michel Bonnemaison - Joëlle de La Casinière - Jacques Lederlin - Enrique AhrimanInstant video is like instant coffee. Images of a woman, dressed differently with every new image, who seems to be practicing her presentation. She keeps on repeating the same, strange sentence....
VIDÉO À LA CHAÎNE II - DISC
Michel Bonnemaison - Joëlle de La Casinière - Jacques Lederlin - Enrique AhrimanA flashing stream of images of homemade videos are pasted together with random TV fragments. These images can be put on a disc, which the voice-over tells the viewer to buy....
VOYELLES
Hänzel & GretzelFirst published in 1883, Voyelles is one of Rimbaud best known poem. Several interpretations have been hypothesised, but none of them seems to be adequate to close the debate. Starting from the evocative power of the poem, Hänzel & Gretzel conceived a dreamy illustration of this famous poem...
VIDÉO RELATIONNELLE (1973 - 1974): L'ÉCRAN
Jacques LennepAn early experiment with the medium of television in the spirit of Nam June Paik or Wolf Vostell. The camera is filming a television set, wherein the performer seems 'trapped'....
VU’CUMPRA? - BIENNALE DE VENISE 99
Emilio López-MencheroVu’cumpra? - Biennale de Venise 99 is a report of a performance realized in Venice in 1999. In the frame of the project En attendant l’année dernière (Waiting for last year), curated by Laurent Jacob, Lino Polegato from Flux-News organized a parallel project called No Milk Today on the notion of churn...
VIDÉO RELATIONNELLE (1973 - 1974): LA POIGNÉE DE PORTE
Jacques LennepA door-handle is filmed with a steady camera. Within a few seconds, it becomes clear that the image is a trompe-l'oeuil in the surrealist Belgian tradition....
VLAAMSE CHOC
Peter BoeckxDuring the run-up to the June 2004 elections Peter Boeckx follows the doings of Filip Dewinter over several months; the man is one of the heads of Vlaams Belang (formerly Vlaams Blok), the right-extremist political party in Flanders. Peter Boeckx makes clear that his report mainly focuses on the figure of ‘Filip the seducer’...
VENTRILOQUIST BIRD
Messieurs DelmotteA short video-performance in which Messieurs Delmotte, standing in a park, lips the sound of a bird....
VERS LA MER
Anick LeroyVers la mer (To the sea) is a black-and-white documentary in which Annick Leroy follows the River Danube from its source in Germany to its estuary in Romania. From Western to Eastern Europe, the landscape changes together with the political frontiers...
VICTORIA (PART OF PAS DE DANSE)
Anne-Mie Van KerckhovenWhenever Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven sees Marc Vanrunxt dance, she feels the urge to show him her interpretation of those moments. Van Kerckhoven: “Filming a dancing subject heightens its visual accessibility. Opposite to the enforced static position of the seated spectator, the point from which the dancer is viewed becomes personal. It becomes possible to observe details accurately...
VERTIGO OR THE AREA OF FREE CATALOGUES
Jan De CockJan De Cock created this installation in the autumn of 1999 at Argos, where it was also exhibited. According to the artist, the work is “a three-dimensional mise en scène with videos and construction material.” At Argos, the artist created various wooden constructions in which four videos were shown...
VASE DE NOCES
Thierry ZénoA solitary man living in an abandoned farmhouse. His territory are the four elements: earth, water, air and fire. He tenderly loves a sow. Three little piglets are born out of their union. He unsuccessfully attempts to wean them, but they continue to run back to their mother. Knitted goods, feeding bottles, family meals? Death is wandering about. The man hangs the piglets, the sow commits suicide...
VIDÉO À LA CHAÎNE II - LEÇON DE GOLF
Michel Bonnemaison - Joëlle de La Casinière - Jacques Lederlin - Enrique AhrimanTwo golfers teach the viewer how to make a perfect swing. The female voice-over tells us that it’s a fragment of a video that one can buy to learn how to play golf. The images are mixed with random extracts of TV images....
VISUALAX
Axel ClaesA video-critique on the concept of exploring the world as being ‘Im Wunderkabinet der Kulturen’. This enchantment made of separations and exotisms is present in many actual urban narratives and alternative cultural work pieces. It is deeply rooted in 19th century Western concepts on the other. Every village slowly slides into the archipelago of cultures...
VIDÉO RELATIONNELLE (1973 - 1974): LES CHAUSSURES
Jacques LennepA steady shot of a pair of immovable shoes and feet. The soundtrack however consist of heavy footsteps....
VIDÉO À LA CHAÎNE II - MEDICO
Michel Bonnemaison - Joëlle de La Casinière - Jacques Lederlin - Enrique AhrimanA female representative tells the story of the founder of ’techni medico’. Images of a bald man and a cat scan of a human brain rotate on the screen, along with the random TV images that Bonnemaison and de la Casinière regularly use in the series ’Video à la chaîne’....
VIDÉO RELATIONNELLE (1973 - 1974): TAPISSERIE
Jacques LennepThe camera shows a fixed shot of a banal wallpaper with a flower-print. Offscreen somebody shouts 'Vive la peinture!'....
