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AMERICA'S ARMY
Jos De GruyterAs the video ‘America’s Army’ takes off we see how two brothers, Christoffel and Ryan, transport home their recently acquired computer. They spend the rest of the time totally isolated from the world in their attic, playing ‘America’s Army’, a computer game in which the player is recruited by the Special Forces of the American army...
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....
VOMIT STAR
Steve Reinke - John MarriottIn 1997, John Marriott proposed ’Vomit Star’, a six-foot star constructed from fake vomit, for his solo exhibition at the Power Plant Toronto. The project was rejected, regrets lingered. “Marriott and Reinke demonstrate the affirmative value of domestic voodoo in this descent into crime-scene-glitter-porn (which is presumably one word in German)...
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....
GARBAGE CITY
Jan LocusThe Zabbaleen (“Garbage people” in Egyptian Arabic) are Coptic Christians who migrated to Cairo 60 years ago and became the garbage collectors of the city.Their family-run micro-enterprises have created one of the most efficient recycling systems in the world...
ABOUT THE ANTICAPITALIST CARNIVAL
Charley CaseTo work for delight and authentic festivity is barely distinguishable from preparing for a general insurrection. Raoul Vaneigem About the Anticapitalistic Carnival illustrates the importance of the celebration in (r)evolutionary thinking...
Avant-garde citizens: Samm’s story, 2007, Libia Castro & Ólafur Ólafsson © the artists
AVANT-GARDE CITIZENS: SAMM’S STORY
Libia Castro - Ólafur ÓlafssonSamm relates a unique story of flight and survival. After being forcibly recruited as a soldier in Liberia, he manages to escape imprisonment and certain death, to find himself unexpectedly in Rotterdam. His experiences with the Dutch immigration and asylum system, as well as the criminal justice system, read as a saga that would be impossible to make up....
INKTPOT
Luc Deleu - Filip Francis - De nieuwe ColoristenIn the dunes of the Belgian seaside town of Koksijde a bunker from World War II is with great deal of sense for detail transformed into a giant inkpot. This early video work is a collaboration between the utopian architect Luc Deleu, painter Filip Francis and the group ‘de nieuwe coloristen’ (translated as ‘the new colorists’)...
THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 46. SLEEP
Steve ReinkeSometimes it’s hard to figure out what it is we really want....
