Found 168 works in collection "De Appel"
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Abramovic, Marina
- Role Exchange Marina Abramovic
In 1975, Marina Abramovic had been a professional artist for 10 years. On the evening of July 2 of that year, the artist exchanged places with Suze, a woman who was a professional prostitute for 10 years as well. Both took on each other's roles for four h...
Anderson, Laurie
- At the Shrink's (a Fake Hologram) Laurie Anderson
During a performance at De Appel, Amsterdam, Anderson is sitting in an easy chair, or rather: an image of the artist is projected onto the chair. She is telling an anecdote about a session with her psychiatrist. Anderson eventually comes to the conclusion... - Songs for Lines/Songs for Waves Laurie Anderson
This performance consists of ten songs in which music, language and images are equally important. In most of these songs, Anderson plays the violin, accompanied by her own singing and an audiotape (with spoken text, more singing or more violin music). Her...
Antal, Sandro
- Die Auspeitschung Sandro Antal
'I am a fist and foot worker.' (S. Antal) In 'Die Auspeitschung' (the lashing) Antal is dressed as a soldier. He is standing before a large canvas, while on the floor lies a sheet of white paper on which a bright lamp is shining. Antal marches across t...
Armagnac, Ben d'
- Performance (de Appel) Ben d' Armagnac
For this performance, Ben d’Armagnac built a glass case, which was painted white on the inside. During the performance, he slowly and meticulously scrapes the paint away from three of the five glass walls. Inside the case, he finds himself in the company ... - Performance (Universiteit Maastricht) Ben d' Armagnac
This is one of the very few works that Ben d'Armagnac made specifically and directly for video. He normally regards the registration of his performances on video as a matter of secondary importance. And even in this work, the camera is only used to regist...
Atherton, Kevin
- In Two Minds - Question Tape Kevin Atherton
This is the tape used in the performance In two Minds – third version: the tape containing questions from the interviewer Atherton to the interviewed Atherton. Together, the two tapes also form a video installation: two monitors are then placed opposite e... - In Two Minds - Third Version Kevin Atherton
In 1978, the first version of the video performance 'In Two Minds' came into being. Kevin Atherton can be seen on a video monitor: he is interrogating the artist Kevin Atherton. Atherton then answers these questions during the live performance. In the sam... - TV-Commercial for Art Project Water Kevin Atherton
A housewife is standing at the kitchen sink, complaining about having to wash up all those dirty dishes. But luckily she’ll do them in no time with ‘…’. This is a commercial in the category 'consumer demonstration' and is a typical Dutch advertisement fro...
Bagnoli, Marco
- Albe of Zonsopgangen Marco Bagnoli
‘Albe or Sunrises is the title of a work Marco Bagnoli made with earth, air and fire on the heath near Laren, 20 kms from Amsterdam. The earth construction consists of an egg-shaped spiral with two specific profiles, while from its centre an 'ampulla' emi...
Beeldend Theater
- Moeder Aarde + Een Zwakke Zuidwesten Wind Beeldend Theater
In this compilation tape, two extremes are confronted with each other, namely, nature (in Moeder Natuur/Mother Nature) and the city (in Een zwakke zuidwestenwind/A light southwesterly wind), with a view to intensifying the everyday experience. These two p... - Een zwakke zuidwesten wind Beeldend Theater
On 12, 13 and 14 December, Een zwakke wind uit het zuid-westen (A light southwesterly wind) and Moeder aarde (Mother Earth) were performed. The first performance involved the installation of a heavily bolted wooden cage, above which were projected slide i...
Besson, Bernard
- Binnenhavenbrug Bernard Besson
'----' (1973) In this video, the Binnenhavenbrug in Rotterdam is both the subject and the carrier of the camera. This is placed in a fixed position on the bridge railing, and is twice turned to face a different direction. This results in a constantl...
Bien, Waldo
- Social Sculpture Foundation I, Regal Star Project Waldo Bien
The tape Regal Star starts with a shot filmed from a dark room. Slowly, doors in the ceiling begin to slide open, and a strip of cloudy sky becomes visible. The camera zooms in on the opening, and suddenly a man is standing there, looking in. The camera f... - Social Sculpture Foundation II Waldo Bien, Joseph Beuys
Born 1949 in The Hague (NL). Student of Joseph Beuys at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf between 1970-1976, Waldo Bien extensively engages with the concept of Social Sculpture in his work, including interdisciplinary research in anthropology and phenomenology...
Bloom, Barbara
- The Big Sleep 2 Barbara Bloom
For The Big Sleep 2, Barbara Bloom makes use of the film The Big Sleep, based on a detective story by Raymond Chandler and starring Humphrey Bogart. The tape begins with promotional matter, after which a voice-over briefly summarizes the film we are about... - The Diamond Lane Barbara Bloom
The Diamond Lane by Barbara Bloom was created between 1978 and 1980. The film has the characteristics of a trailer: highlights from a forthcoming film are presented, leading actors are announced, the public is invited to go and see the film, and all this ...
Boetti, Alighiero
- Ciò Che Sempre Parla in Silenzio é il Corpo Alighiero Boetti
Alighiero Boetti (1940, Turin – 1994, Rome) was involved in the Italian arte povera of the 1960s. The arte povera artists (Boetti, Kounellis, Merz, Pistoletto, and others) dealt in a simple manner with everyday situations that usually go by unnoticed. The...
Boltanski, Christian
- Quelques Souvenirs de jeunesse Christian Boltanski
This performance was recorded in the presence of an audience. In his act, Boltanski deals with various incidents from his childhood. All the sketches are set in the past, which suggests that most of the characters are no longer alive. The tape begins with... - La Vie c'est Gaie, La Vie est Triste Christian Boltanski
In the tape La vie c’est gaie, c’est triste, Boltanski is filmed in a Charlie Chaplin outfit (bowler hat, black suit, etc.). He is standing on a stage, or so it appears, before an open curtain, with a microphone in front of him. It has something of stand-...
Burden, Chris
- Afternoon at the Porta Rossa Hotel with A.Smith Chris Burden
Burden and a woman find themselves in a hotel room playing strip poker, their faces are out of view. The loser walks away passing in front of the camera, so that the naked body can be seen from close by. In the next shot, the woman is lying naked on the b... - Art and Technology 'yankee ingenuity' Chris Burden
'During the two-month period of August 24 to October 16, 1975, I conceived, designed and constructed a small one-passenger automobile. My goal was to design a fully operational four-wheeled vehicle which would travel 100 miles per hour and achieve 100 mil... - Car Nut Part 1 Chris Burden
The artist is sitting on the sofa with Alexis Smith (who appears more often in Burden’s tapes), and tells us about the cars he used to own. Each car has its own memories, from car accidents to events that took place during the time he owned a particular c... - Guru for Detroit Chris Burden
The artist sits on the couch next to Alexis Smith (who appears more often on Burden's tapes) and talks about the cars he has owned. Every car comes with memories, from car accidents to events from the time he owned a particular car. Through these anecdote... - Interviewed by A. Smith Chris Burden
Sitting at a table in a garden in Italy, the artist is being interviewed by Alexis Smith, the woman who also appears in other tapes by Burden. Church bells can be heard in the background. Burden sheds light on various performances, including 'the oracle',...
Buren, Daniel
- Covering Effacing Daniel Buren
Buren realized Covering/effacing (1974) in Florence. All that is left of this is a ‘video souvenir’; a tape-recorded memory of a work long gone. Buren calls the photos and videos of his work ‘souvenirs’, because they can never replace the real work, place...
Calzolari, Pier Paolo
Cárdenas, Miguel-Ángel
- Somos Libres!? Miguel-Ángel Cárdenas
To what extent are gay men 'free'? There are many countries in the world where they are oppressed and discriminated against both legally and illegally. Somos Libres!? (which is Spanish for: 'Are we free!?') tells the story of two young homosexuals who fle...
Carrión, Ulises
- Gossip, Scandal and Good Manners Ulises Carrión
Carrión analyzes gossip and other associated areas such as rumour and scandal in art and life. He uses the form of an educational and scientific program where experts are called upon to air their views. Carrión consciously opts for this formal and objecti...
Castelli, Luciano
- Solarium Luciano Castelli
This video is the representation of a performance held at Gallery De Appel, on May 30th, 1975. 'Solarium' consists of two parts, in which the camera initially plays an active, and later a passive, role. In the first half of the video, the camera glides...
Chiari, Giuseppe
- Concert Groninger Museum Giuseppe Chiari
2747 Concert Groninger Museum […] 'What is a happening? To undertake an act one performs during his everyday life, usually distractedly, almost without realizing it, as a significant act.' In this performance, Chiari first flattens out a long role of ... - Concerto al buio 'Royal College Concert 1974' Giuseppe Chiari
2748 Concerto Albuio 'Royal College 1974' […] This tape has no picture. On the screen, only the title and the duration of the concert are shown. So in fact, this is purely an audiotape. The sounds betray a larger area, in which footsteps can occasional... - Spoleto Concert Giuseppe Chiari
2668 Spoleto Concert […] In Spoleto Concert, Chiari’s hands and piano are being filmed from above. The two hands are caressing, coercing, chasing and seducing each other, with the piano keys being pressed down in the process. 'I wanted to make music/ V... - Study no. 1 en 2 Giuseppe Chiari
2749 Study Nos. 1 and 2 […] In Study No. 1, Chiari investigates the phenomenon of art, by writing ‘Art is Easy’ on a large sheet of paper. In Study No. 2, he holds up a stick, which he then, in various ways, drops on the floor and picks up again. This ...
Claessen, Ingrid
Collyer, Robin
Contemporary Art Foundation
- Herenleed de Moeder Contemporary Art Foundation
Episode 1 of Herenleed in the landscape 1. The Woman (January 22, 1976) Herenleed was a series of television and theater programs written and performed by Armando and Cherry Duyns, later supplemented with interludes by Johnny van Doorn. Subtitled '...
Davis, Douglas
- The Florence Tapes Douglas Davis
This work by Douglas Davis consists of four ‘chapters’, which together form a whole; they are entitled: Clothing, Walking, Lifting, Leaving. In each of these parts of the performance, Davis defines the role of the monitor by means of day-to-day actions (g... - Studies In Myself II Douglas Davis
The artist is at the computer, typing out his thoughts as directly as possible on the keyboard. The stream of words can be followed on the screen: the image of the typing Davis forms the background. Apart from being a ‘self-study’ of the artist, all this ...
Dekker, Gerrit
- 4 maart 1977 Bonnefanten Museum Gerrit Dekker
Documentation of a performance in the Bonnefantenmuseum in Maastricht in which the artist constantly moves his eyes up and down. - An Event in Gallery 'De Mangelgang' Groningen versie 1 Gerrit Dekker
For ten minutes, we are shown a white package placed against a white wall. The white contrasts sharply with the dark floor. This very formal image is reconcretized by sounds; the murmur of water, wind and waves, and the sound of someone wading through the... - An Event in the Neue Galerie Aachen versie 1 Gerrit Dekker
This tape by Dekker comprises six photos of mirrors in public toilets, accompanied by the sound of footsteps. Street sounds and music can be heard in the background. The tape does not include any images of the actual event.
Display Systems
Dominicis, Gino De
Druks, Michael
- Playbox Amsterdam Michael Druks
In this performance, Michael Druks takes on the medium of television. Druks appears in the performance area, which is furnished as a living room. A television set stands on a table, surrounded by household articles. Druks is reacting to the programme bein...
Eventstructure Research Group
- Laser Performance Eventstructure Research Group, Jeffrey Shaw, Theo Botschuijver
This tape contains the registration of a laser performance. What appear to be spatial forms are generated by manipulating a laser beam at great speed and in regular patterns. The planes and figures are made visible by smoke and dust in the air. This work ...
Export, Valie
- Raum sehen und Raum hören VALIE EXPORT
The artist is standing in an empty room. There is no sound. Then, suddenly, there is a pulse, which varies in pitch and pace, changing with the image. The pulse seems to attach itself to her. They become one. The artist does not change her position, but c...
Flipse, David
- Strings / The Basic of Drawing David Flipse
The work of artist David Flipse is inspired by the effect of repetition in image productions. Initially he developed this concept in autobiographically oriented performances. Strings (Koorden), video of a multi-media performance by David Flipse in De Appe...
Forti, Simone
- Zonder titel Simone Forti
Commentary: limited edition of 70 signed copies Sound: singing In this tape, shots of moving animals in captivity alternate with images of Forti herself. She, too, is locked up in an empty space outdoors, and is moving like an animal in the zoo; endle...
Fox, Terry
- Lunedi Terry Fox
Alchemy plays a major role in Terry Fox’s work. His performances are mystical scientific experiments with various objects. Lunedi is one of these experiments. The act is filmed in such a way that it arouses the viewer’s curiosity about the way in which Fo...