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THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 51. WINDY MORNING IN APRIL
Steve ReinkeI dreamt I could suck myself off but when I woke up I found my back was nowhere near that flexible....
IN WAKING HOURS
Sarah VanagtWith the publication of the Ophthalmographia in 1632, the Amsterdam physician Vopiscus Fortunatus Plempius sheds new light on the age-old question of how seeing works. His answer is an invitation to experiment: Enter with me into a darkened room and prepare the eye of a freshly slaughtered cow. He emphasizes that anyone may carry out this experiment, at home, "demanding little effort and expense...
'SUB-'
Hans Op de BeeckThis video installation, a 3 by 2.5m film projection, provides us with a view to an escalator in an endless downward movement. The cold, self-reflecting strips light slides towards us over the stairs, and betrays a downward movement. In this symmetrical image only the metal of the escalator stairs can be seen: no actors, no props...
INCIDENT. EINE ANNÄHERUNG
Andreas BrehmerA work using text, music and fragments of photography. An emotionless computer voice quotes from a German grammar manual, as the text appears simultaneously on the bottom of the screen. At the same time the image systematically and meticulously explores the painting of a landscape. Elements are related to one another: the rhythm of the image, the spoken and the written words...
EXTENDED PRESENCES
Margaux Dauby"Looking at the tree line, a question creeps into my mind and, simultaneously, I have a desire what if nothing existed?" 'Extended Presences' follows several women in their seasonal work as fire watchers in Portugal. The film comes close to their breathing, to the passing of time and to solitude, from within....
DANIEL BUREN
Jef CornelisGeorges Adé (1936-1992) interviews the French artist Daniel Buren (°1938) at the occasion of his solo exhibition – simply entitled Buren (11 May - 5 June, 1971) – in front of the Wide White Space Gallery in Antwerp. As in his previous show with the same title (17 January - 6 February, 1969), Buren applied his renowned motif, namely the alternation of white and coloured 8...
DANIEL BUREN (PALAIS ROYAL)
Jef CornelisFor the installation Les Deux Plateaux (The Two Levels, 1985-1986), Daniel Buren (°1938) placed a grid of 260 black and white striped cylinders of different heights in the elegant courtyard of the Palais Royal in Paris...
CLAMOR
Edurne RubioPeople who committed suicide and babies who died before being baptised were not accepted in Catholic cemeteries until not so long ago. Desperate relatives secretly sought out a dignified place for their bodies. Burials that shared hills and wind with executed people, atheists, passers-by, Protestants.....