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THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 06. EMERGENCE OF DEMOCRATIC MEMORY
Steve ReinkeWhen something enters into us and becomes incorporated as a memory, there must be some changes within the brain, but no one knows what they are....
ADDICTIVE 01
Edith Dekyndt‘Addictive’ is a project, which started in the beginning of 2002. On the Internet, several web cams were sought out, aimed at sea and lakeside beaches. The rhythm of their refresh rate varies; some show fresh actualization every couple of seconds, others every ten minutes and still others every hour...
OTOLITH II
The Otolith GroupAs in ’Otolith I’, the narrator in ’Otolith II’ is related to Anjalika Sagar, one of the founders of the Otolith Group. Here, she is looking back from a distant future, while a pressure "high enough to change coal into diamond" functions as a metaphor for the way in which cities will in the future be confronted with continuous population growth...
BOARDGAME, OR FROM THE RANKS TO FIELD MARSHAL
Wendy MorrisFrom the Ranks to Field Marshal is a World War I game of obstacles and rewards. In this Union of South Africa adaption recruitment is micro-managed. Home is denied by the Land Act. Weapons are replaced by tools of labour. Accommodation is controlled within a system of closed compounds. Recruits board ships for France to the sound of S.E...
MADAME PAUL SIX, UNE FERMIÈRE QUI A DES LETTRES
Jacques LennepVideo, 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...
CONTAINER 02: TUSSEN WAANZIN EN PERFECTIE
Jef Cornelis"Between madness and perfection". A discussion around the exhibition Open Mind/Closed Circuits by the former Museum for Contemporary Art in Ghent (june 1986), which attempted to situate so-called ’art brut’ within the contemporary art scene. This exhibition also had the intention of breaking through a ‘pigeon-holing’ mentality...
COMME D'HABITUDE. UNE PIÈCE À ENGAGER
Eran Schaerf - Eva Meyer‘As Habitual’ is a set piece, a documentary fiction, about how to adapt oneself to unknown regions without surrendering to them. This movie is situated in Mombassa and Zanzibar, where you can find a material called Khanga that hovers between language and architecture, and in fact turns into a habit...
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 HUNDRED VIDEOS 52. LOVE LETTER TO DOUG
Steve ReinkeI think it’s true what they say in all those songs: falling in love requires overvaluing the tiny ways in which one individual varies from another....
PIET MONDRIAAN
Jef CornelisPeter Struycken, one of the first European artists to make use of the computer, compares Composition in Black and White, the first abstract painting by Piet Mondriaan, to a computer programme-simulated copy – ‘Computer Composition With Lines’ by Michael Noll, who was a scientific advisor for the White House at the time...
