- You Must Remember This Marshalore
In this tape, Marshalore confronts various women in turn with patterns of expectation in connection with their femininity. The link is Marshalore herself, as a jazz singer. Between the sketches, she can constantly be seen in black and white (the rest of t...
Merz, Gerhard
Mitzka, Ernst
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Odenbach, Marcel
- Keep in View Marcel Odenbach
Keep in view is a four-channel video. In the upper left corner there’s a projection of a black-and-white tape of a journey through a tunnel. Through this image another fragments of videos flash - masses marching, crosses pulled down, the Wall torn down. ...
Palestine, Charlemagne
- body music I Charlemagne Palestine
In the performance space the artist is standing on his knees and singing. Then he starts to hit the floor with his knees. Afterwards, he gets up on his feet and starts to run in circles, occasionally bumping into the walls. During all this time he doesn’t... - body music II Charlemagne Palestine
In this video we can see the rooms of the Villa Medici through the camera adjusted to the artist’s shoulder. He runs from one room to another singing and increasing the speed gradually.
Peeters, Sef
- The 61 hours in de Appel band I Sef Peeters
Peeters is filming himself from the back, while seated at a desk. He is writing in a notebook. In the next shot, he is scrubbing the text ‘wiped out’ off the floor, using a face flannel. In the third act, he is filming a monitor that is connected to the c... - The 61 Hours in de Appel band II Sef Peeters
With 'for those who love me, for those who hate me' as his motto, Peeters films himself during various activities. This second tape is of a more personally physical nature than the first one. It is the registration of normal activities of the body. Breath... - De Poging Sef Peeters
Sef Peeters is lying on the floor, wrapped up in a sack of white elastic fabric. He is thrashing about wildly, while the sound of an alarm clock can be heard. The title seems to point to an attempt to escape from the claustrophobic environment in which Pe...
Ploeg, Maarten van der
Päs, Gerard P.
- art, kunst, diet Gerard P. Päs
This performance took place at De Appel. Päs is standing behind a table, with a cake in front of him. In English, he recounts 'a story about art', as he calls it himself. While he is talking, he is also eating the cake. The story begins in his childhood, ...
Raaijmakers, Dick
- Extase Dick Raaijmakers
On a stage, a person on a bike is moving only ten meters in 30 minutes. In slow motion, like in a film, the biker takes a slow somersault and lands on his head. The fall takes so long that time and space seem to lead a life of their own. It is a re-enact...
Rainer, Arnulf
- Confrontation with my Video Image Arnulf Rainer
In this video, we can see the artist observing himself on a monitor underneath the camera. It is as if he is seeing himself for the first time. The amazement and embarrassment with which he studies himself in the first part, later make way for an expressi... - Mouth Piece Arnulf Rainer
In the work Mouth Piece, Rainer is observing himself on a monitor that is standing underneath the camera. He studies his mouth as it moves, feels his face with his fingers and looks at himself with a moving lack of inhibition. He does not speak, but his m... - Slow Motions Arnulf Rainer
Slow Motions is a work in which Rainer makes his way into a white space. In this film, the artist shows his entire body. Unlike his other videos, which include some explosive moments, here Rainer only makes slow and subdued movements. The video has been e...
Rinke, Klaus
- Sehnsüchtiges Wasser Klaus Rinke
Rinke is standing behind a table full of glasses and pots filled with water. Water that he has scooped up with his hand from a mountain spring, so that is free of the dregs that get into it by pumping. He calls it ‘sehnsüchtiges Wasser’, yearning water. H...
Robakowsky, Jozef
- Construction in Process Jozef Robakowsky
'Video Art in Poland had an original beginning. It grew from the audiovisual creative movement begun in the 1970s at the Film Forms Workshop in Lódz. This was a group of people (...) who had ambitions to examine the language of audiovisual performances, f...
Rolfe, Nigel
- Crawling Nigel Rolfe
Rolfe is being filmed from above, while he is covering the floor with sand. With the help of templates, he then makes figures of powdered charcoal in the sand – diamonds, circles, triangles and crosses. These images are accompanied by a rhythmical ticking...
Rosenbach, Ulrike
- Salto Mortale Ulrike Rosenbach
This is a video live action; the video work originated as a recording of a performance. With a camera in her hands, the artist swings from a two-meter-high trapeze. She is holding the camera in such a way that the lens points upwards. A well-known press ...
Russel, Susan
- Anthology - Disappearance Susan Russel
Images filmed from a car glide across the screen, accompanied by piano music. The text: 'I don’t come here very much anymore' is whispered repeatedly. Then Russel reads out a text, some phrases of which she repeats. The text slowly fades away. Meanwhile, ... - Anthology - Tech Baby Susan Russel
'I’ve never been lonely since I’ve had all my media around me'. The tape Tech Baby is a story about a listless, bored girl, who regains her zest for life due to active involvement with the mass media (notably video). The video is split up into three pa... - Anthology TV Hot-TV Cold Susan Russel
Wearing a brightly coloured aerobic outfit, Russel is standing in front of an equally conspicuous wall full of slogans on the mass media. While beating out a rhythm on a tambourine, she is dancing and rapping the following text: 'TV hot, TV cold, TV in t...
Rutimann, Christoph
Salle, David
- Five untitled Pieces From 1974-1976 David Salle
Five untitled pieces 1974-1976 This early work by David Salle is an experiment with the medium of video. Various fragments, which most of all resemble comical sketches, follow each other (but are not really related to one another). For example, a tradi...
Samsom, Marja
- Marja Samsom Presenting Miss Kerr Marja Samsom
For this performance, Samson transformed Gallery De Appel into a nightclub. The camera is focused on a small stage with curtains lit up by a spotlight. Then Samson, dressed only in aluminium foil, steps onto the stage from between the curtains. She slowly...
Schippers, Wim T
- 1e Performance De Appel Wim T Schippers
On April 7th and 8th, 1978, Wim T. Schippers gives two performances at De Appel. These performances opened an exhibition which included a small cut-up painting in Cobra style, a ‘table display of French cheese’ and some rolls of money. During the first pe... - 2e Performance De Appel 2e deel Wim T Schippers
Wim T. Schippers gives two performances on the occasion of the opening of his exhibition. This second performance by Schippers is similar to the first: Schippers is full of jokes and pranks, takes photos of the audience, sings songs, and improvises to his... - Cross Now Wim T Schippers
Cross Now is an English-language TV play, which Schippers made for VPRO Television, using English actors. This caused a small riot with the unions, which would not agree to a TV programme for Dutch TV without any Dutch actors. Schippers got his way in the...
Schneemann, Carolee
- ABC- We Print Anything in the Cards Carolee Schneemann
This performance, recorded at De Appel, is completely different from what would be expected from Schneeman. Schneeman herself describes her performance as a ‘lecture with images’. She is sitting up straight, almost formally, in front of a white screen. He...
Schoenbaum, Sam
- Engagement/Disengagement Sam Schoenbaum
Het podium is verdeeld in drieën, er is een tafel met twee stoelen, een monitor met stoel en een dansvloer. De performance is gesplitst in 4 stukken van 12 minuten. In elk deel zitten twee mensen aan tafel in een zogenaamd huiselijke omgeving. Zij benad...
Schouten, Lydia
- Breaking Through the Circle Lydia Schouten
In this performance (held in the presence of an audience), Lydia Schouten theatrically covers herself with tar and feathers. Dressed in ballet costume, she steps into a ring of feathers with a circle of tar in the middle. Like a dancing ballerina, she cov...
Schuller, Florian
Schumans, Marjo
- Het Leven Marjo Schumans
Schumans is walking round in circles in a white room, where the light is diffused by a net curtain, and possibly also by a smoke machine. Schumans begins to walk, and, when a bicycle bell suddenly tinkles, she changes her posture by placing her right hand...
Sharp, Willoughby
- Break Willoughby Sharp
Vanuit de bosjes wordt een huis gefilmd. Langzaam nadert de camera het pand, waaruit geschreeuw komt. Een mannenstem schreeuwt 'break, break, break, gonna break here, gotta break from here, gonna break out of here, gotta get out of here'. De camera gaat h...
Shohan, Naomi
- The Pope in New York Naomi Shohan
A film by artist Naomi Shohan about the visit of Pope John Paul II to a youth rally in Madison Square Garden, New York, in 1979. The pope sits on a podium in Madison Square Garden, on a chair, with a microphone in front of him. The young audience is wait...
Siepmann
- Verpuppung/Chrysalisation Siepmann, Ulla Siepmann
For this performance, Planstudio Siepmann engaged an actor. Together with the audience, this actor is in a room with a grid of dark and light-coloured lines on the floor. In the background, the sound of a throbbing engine can be heard. 'After some 20 minu...
Smals, Wies
- Dutch Treat Wies Smals, Stansfield / Hooykaas, Harrie de Kroon, Moniek Toebosch, Gerrit Dekker, Marja Samsom, Nikolaus Urban, Servie Janssen
In 1978, Martha Wilson (founding director of Franklin Furnace in New York City) travelled to Amsterdam in order to do a performance at de Appel. Together with Wies Smals, founder of de Appel, she then came to the idea to organize an exchange between both,...
Sonfist, Alan
- Köln Alan Sonfist
A man stands in an area of parkland. He lays out a light, rolled-up canvas on the ground. Then he slowly unrolls it. He meticulously places some branches and twigs on the canvas, precisely where they were before he unrolled it. 'As the canvas is unroll...
Soreff, Stephen s'
- The Flying Eye Stephen s' Soreff
With a manual remote control, TV viewers can steer a ‘flying eye’ from their living rooms. It’s even possible to scout the Sahara this way. Better yet, a race between two ‘flying eyes’ can be settled at home like the one shown here, where red and blue eye... - Tombs, Water, Clouds, Knives Stephen s' Soreff
'I am the editor and publisher of AGAR. AGAR is the art-magazine of the future which I have invented. The artist is invented, the event is invented, the art-form is invented', aldus Stephen 's Soreff in1980. Deze tape bevat vier afleveringen van het kunst...
Stansfield / Hooykaas
- Flying Time (single-channelversie) Stansfield / Hooykaas
We can see the waterside on the beach; waves of clear water are rippling back and forth over the sand. A motionless woman casts a blue shadow: only her hair is moving. A woman’s voice monotonously recites time distances and time differences, each time bet... - The Force Behind its Movement Stansfield / Hooykaas
Nature plays an important part in the work of Stansfield/Hooykaas. It is often the connecting factor in the relationship between form and content. They are fascinated by the various ways in which nature's powers manifest themselves. 'The Force Behind its... - Memory Window Stansfield / Hooykaas
'We made this project, "Memory Window", in August 1977 in the Jordaan (a district in the centre of Amsterdam), in the vicinity of the exhibition space of De Appel, where this installation was first on show. One of the ideas on which this project was based... - See Through Lines Stansfield / Hooykaas
In 'See Through Lines' by Stansfield and Hooykaas, the viewer's gaze glides along a Dutch landscape: starting with the sky, and then descending from an electricity pylon towards a canal. Then the image travels up again, along the other bank towards the sk... - Split Seconds Stansfield / Hooykaas
In the installation 'Split Seconds', a small monitor is placed in front of a slightly larger one, with both monitors showing the same recording of wood being chopped. The image on the small monitor even includes what remains covered up in the larger image...