Category: Index & Index

  • Representative realism

    Representational realism, related to indirect realism, is a philosophical concept, broadly equivalent to the accepted view of perception in natural science. Unfortunately, the meaning of the theory is dependent on the user’s interpretation of words like ‘perceive’, ‘reality’ etc. such that in the longstanding debate between representational (indirect) and naive (direct) realists each side will…

  • Direct realism

    Direct realism, also known as naïve realism or Common Sense Realism, is a theory of perception that claims that the senses provide us with direct awareness of the external world. In contrast to this direct awareness, indirect realism and representationalism claim that we are directly aware only of internal representations of the external world. And…

  • Episode 1, emergency food distribution and the role of the cameras by Renzo Martens

        Martens subjects are the normal cast of characters in every war; heavily armed soldiers on border patrol, civilians lining up for food, civilians trying to get on with it, civilians suffering before their destroyed homes and lives, refugees, but also all manner of NGO employees with their food programmes and journalists with their…

  • Home by Olaf Breuning

        http://web.me.com/olafbreuning/Films/home1.html

  • Fall – Patrick Jolley

    Fall – Patrick Jolley. 16mm. 2008 Tedium breeds its own reverie. Here becomes like there becomes like could be anywhere. This forms a coincidence with the generic: Repetitions erode sense of place and make buildings seem less substantial. The logic of these displacements causes things to come adrift. Little houses sink and burn. Furniture smashes…

  • Parc Central – Hong Kong Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster

    [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBw7W3_e25s&w=480&h=390]

  • Tony Hill – Films

    Tony Hill Films.

  • Bruce Nauman – Get Out of my Mind, Get Out of This Room

    [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5lqH40YoqM&w=480&h=390]

  • Speech bubble – Adam Leech

    speech bubble duration: 5 minute loop projection with 4 speakers 4/3, PAL, color, sound link to video

  • The documentary real

    It has been a number of years that the so-called ‘documentary turn’ has become a frequent phenomenon in many artists’ films. The talk will be a comparative look into recent documentary practices that diverge from the orthodoxy of documentary as ‘factual’ film’, a notion which contemporary artists have repeatedly challenged of late. These artists working…