[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdcXelmbEp8&hl=nl_NL&fs=1&] In 1991 maakten Ali Haselhoef en Inge Willems Een rare zons- ondergang. Toen te zien op Kunstkanaal, nu op de wereldwijde kijkbuis. Gesprekken met de toppers van toen. Een tijd van voor het internet. Denken deed men in guldens. En dat allemaal in de smaak analoge video. Prachtig tijdsdocument (must see!) Met o.a. Bart…

Carsten Nicolai is one of the most renowned artists working at the intersection of art and science and infamous for his minimalist approach. Having exhibited internationally at Documenta X and the Venice Biennale, he is also an active musician working under his music alias Alva Noto and has staged performances with Ryuichi Sakamoto at the…

Ze is voor de helft vergeten, maar nog volledig in de hedendaagse kunst aanwezig: Sylvia Stone, geboren in 1928 en was in de vroege jaren zeventig van grote invloed op het idee hoe een sculptuur tegenover de ruimte staat en er mee handelt. Doordat er bijna geen documentatie van haar is te vinden, is het…

If we consider the layers of a compost heap as strata, then the foremost layers can be seen to be the beginning of a process. This commencement however, is a significant distance from its purpose. To return again from the height to the collective earth, binding with loam to create stronger roots and utilising the…

The basic idea behind Displaced Sounds is to focus on the hidden influences, implications and possibilities of sound. We feel these elements are under-documented in our visual culture however it’s clear that we live in a world inhabited and surrounded, some say polluted, by sound. We are losing and neglecting our ability to hear and…

The first photograph was taken in 1814 by Nicéphore Niépce using a sliding wooden box camera made by Charles and Vincent Chevalier in Paris; the photograph though was not permanent and it faded. Niépce built on a discovery by Johann Heinrich Schultz 1724: a silver and chalk mixture darkens under exposure to light. While this…

London When I was young I made myself aprisoner of my room. It became part of me, an extension of my being. I thought of the walls as my shell. The room as a container had some relationship to the imaginary space inside a monitor . . .—Peter Campus, conversationwith Barbara Nierhoff, 2003 1 Warren…

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A détournement is a variation on a previous media work, in which the newly created one has a meaning that is antagonist to the original. The original media work that is détourned must be somewhat familiar to the target audience, so that it can appreciate the opposition of the new message. The artist or commentator…