MANIPULATORS: I'M NOT A HORSE

‘Manipulators’ is a TV genre in which the programme is improvised by the curators. With Podcasts,online TV, mobile phones, video Ipods, blogs and YouTube, the digital age allows an infinite number of images and sounds to travel the world in no time. It is the era of home made productions, which expresses the chaotic nature of the human condition today as well as the cynicism of power.This video compilation, which can be understood both as the joyful affirmation of a superb global disengagement and the catalyst of effervescent criticism, is best described as a platform for temporary disobedience.

Johan Grimonprez (1962) lives and works both in Ghent and New York, where he is a visiting professor at the School of Visual Arts. He is best-known for his video work DIAL H-I-S-T-O-R-Y (1997). In this and other work he mainly investigates the use of massmedia as a political instrument and a considerable tool in the construction of realities, in our era of infotainment and mediasaturation. Charlotte Léouzon (1971) has written for Liberation, Jalouse, DS, Dépeche Mode and Beaux Arts. She is a talent scout, who collects experimental cinema, video art, commercials and music videos.