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EUROPALIA DESIGNCENTER

Jef Cornelis
Original broadcast date: 27/09/1971...
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THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 69. HARVEY K.

Steve Reinke
An ode to Harvey Keitel....

HIT HIM ON THE HEAD WITH A HARD HEAVY HAMMER

Rebecca Jane Arthur
Hit Him on the Head with a Hard, Heavy Hammer departs from the handwritten memoir of the filmmaker’s father and his experience of displacement during wartime. Referring to the notion Thomas Hardy termed ‘The Self-Unseeing’ in his eponymous 1901 poem, the film returns to childhood and the matters that harden us...
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THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 87. CHILDREN'S VIDEO COLLECTIVE

Steve Reinke
In the early seventies I was a founding member of the Children’s Video Collective....

THE SURRENDER OF BREDA

Luc Gobyn
Inspired by the painting of Diego Velasquez, ‘The Surrender of Breda’, an image of the mayor of Cuéllar before the start of the bullrunning....
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KUNST ALS KRITIEK. WANNEER IS KUNST WEL KRITIEK? 4. WANNEER DE KUNSTENAAR IN ALLE ERNST SPEELT [NOS VERSION]

Jef Cornelis
Part of a series of short themed sketches surrounding the question “When is Art Criticism?”, the given answer this time being ’When the artist is toying around in all seriousness’...

DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS

Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven
In ‘Dance of the 7 Veils’, a fragment of Vanrunxt’s choreography ‘Sur scène’, the dancer performs his solo in a park in Schilde. Van Kerckhoven films the six minutes of choreography in one take. For three successive days, at six in the morning, at noon and at six in the evening, this scenario is repeated. These three takes are superimposed...

LES ONDES DE LOVE

Edith Dekyndt
A flag made of 20 meters of black cloth, standing on the desert plateau of an active volcano, waves generated as if the mast movement of the fabric, forming a wave. When conditions are most favorable, the movement becomes sinusoidal and visually approximates the seismic waves discovered by the British mathematician Augustus Edward Hough Love (1863-1940)....
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WHAT'S DONE, EVIL'S DONE

Messieurs Delmotte
"This is not a performance and even less a good idea." Mystery artist Messieurs Delmotte performs silent-movie hijinks with disregard for dignity and limb. In ’Ce qui est fait, le mal est fait’, the city merely provides a milieu for absurd actions performed alone before the camera...

THE ROOT PROBLEM OF THE WORLD

Steve Reinke
This is adapted from a two-channel video installation of the same name I presented at Birch Libralato in conjunction with the Images Festival in Toronto in 2011. The footage is from reel-to-reel video documentation of the lecture Joseph Beuys gave at NSCAD in 1976 on the occassion of his honorary degree...