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BETWEEN RELATING AND USE
Nazli Dinçel"Exhibitions, whether of objects or people, are displays of the artifacts of our disciplines. They are for this reason also exhibits for those who make them, no matter what their ostensible subject. The first order of business is therefore to examine critically the conventions guiding ethnographic display.....
THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 59. RE-ENACTMENT OF A PERFORMANCE
Steve ReinkeThis video is a re-enactment of Joseph Beuys’ important performance “How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare"....
RAOUL DE KEYSER
Jef CornelisJef Cornelis made this portrait of the famous Belgian painter Raoul De Keyser in 1971, on the occasion of his exhibition ‘Linnen dozen, sneden en zware kalklijnschilderijen’ (‘Linen boxes, cuts and heavy chalk line paintings') in the Plus-Kern Art centre in Ghent, Belgium...
LA COMÉDIENNE
Michel LorandThe Medea installation is made up of a large, square table with four video monitors. A single actor or actress is seen on three of the four monitors, from the waist up and frontal. The fourth monitor shows only text. The starting point is a short prose piece written by Lorand about a young woman intending to kill her two children after the end of her relationship with their father...
SMOKE-PRODUCING
Messieurs DelmotteDressed in a checkered suit Delmotte lights a small piece of phosphorous on his jacket. It burns a round hole and produces a lot of white smoke. Messieurs Delmotte repeats the performance, keeping a straight face. This work is part of the series Brokendown Dream...
MARSHALL MCLUHAN
Jef CornelisIn this short documentary film, Georges Adé (1936-1992), is sitting in the Antwerp municipal library, presents the book Culture is our business (1970) by the Canadian philosopher and communication theorist Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980). Adé shows reproductions of advertisements from the book and reads extracts from it...
A IS HOTTER THAN B
Edith DekyndtA is hotter than B is a video showing the dissolution of a drop of ink captured in an ice-cube which disintegrates between the artist’s fingers. While the rigorous title assumes the status of a mathematical formula, it contrasts with the majesty of the ample, harmonious movement of the colored liquid...
AS…
Peter DownsbroughA video triptych (‘And’, ‘Here’, ‘As...) ‘fully recorded in the area around Lille and Tourcoing, commissioned for the exhibition ‘La ville qui fait signes’ at Le Fresnoy (Tourcoing, France, autumn 2004)...
A WEEKEND WITH MONSIEUR MAGRITTE
Jef Cornelis’a weekend with Monsieur Magritte’ was compiled from fragments of amateur films Magritte made himself on super-8 and 8mm. The first part – ’Saturday’ – drew from the films he shot in the 1956 -1960 period together with his friends from Brussels and from the recordings of his own works...
POP ART: CASINO KNOKKE
Jef CornelisA short report on the event surrounding Pop Art which Emile Langui organised in 1970 in the Casino of Knokke. Rather than an exhibition, the event was conceived as a situation, a biotope in which visitors and works are admitted like plants and fish in deep-sea water...
