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THE FINE ARTS

Cooper Battersby - Emily Vey Duke
In ’The Fine Arts’, Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby mock their own lack of inspiration: a woman confesses that she’s speaking French in the nude because she has no good ideas but admits that her solution is unoriginal. "I hate the fine arts, I am disgusted by the fine arts, because, um, the fine arts are always made with artifice."...

LE PETIT JEUNE HOMME DE BINCHE

Jan Vromman
Carnival in the Belgian town of Binche is not just a revel and an orgy. It’s subject to strict rules. Every male inhabitant of Binche can become ’Gilles’. Every Gilles puts on a colourful suit and is accompanied by a drummer wherever he goes. On top of this the Gilles all wear the same wax mask during the afternoon of carnival...

MADAME PAUL SIX, UNE FERMIÈRE QUI A DES LETTRES

Jacques Lennep
Video, 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...

THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 31. LONELY BOY

Steve Reinke
When I was fourteen years old I was a fat kid - I mean, that’s putting it blunt. I was 170 pounds. I was a heavy kid and it didn’t look like I was meant for show business at all. But I had that bubbling inside of me and I wanted to sing. And I did....

SPEECH BUBBLE

Adam Leech
The main concerns of Adam Leech’s work are the semantics of voice versus speech and the political engineering of public space and community. Speech Bubble began as an investigation into the bankruptcy of the Belgian high-tech speech recognition company, Lernout & Hauspie...

LILI

An van. Dienderen
In a TV studio a girl named Lili (played by Belgian actress Maaike Neuville) is asked to serve as a so-called China Girl. China Girls, used in cinema history since the 1920’s, are women with Caucasian skin who are filmed alongside a colour-chart in order to adjust the colours of the film. They have no dialogues to memorize or characters to impersonate...

ANDY WARHOL

Jef Cornelis
Report on the Andy Warhol exhibition at the van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven in 1970, views of the exhibition and catalogue illustrations. Content: 00’00" Leader. 00’07" Titles. 00’15" Report on The Andy Warhol exhibition at the van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven. Views of the exhibition. 03’27" Catalogue illustrations. 05’13" Credits...

RIJKSWEG N1

Jef Cornelis
Rijksweg 1 (State Highway 1) links up Antwerp to Brussels over Mechelen (Malines). Before the motorway came, there was some really heavy traffic. Now the highway is abandoned. Jef Cornelis picks out a straight piece, between Kontich and Walem. “A highway which lost its way. A road of today. A road acting as a location. It makes out the landscape, its own landscape all by itself...

THE FRENCH WALL / LE MUR

Thomas Bernardet
The video camera records a white stone wall in the South of France in full frame....

OOG EN HAND ALS UITDRUKKING 01

Jef Cornelis
For the art programme 'Openbaar Kunstbezit' Cornelis made two essayistic television reports in 1972 about the use of hands and eyes in the visual arts, “a way to look and to communicate.” With regard to its form, 'Oog en hand als uitdrukking 01' ('Eye and hand as expression 01') is very free, certainly bearing in mind the television standards of the time...