- 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... - 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. - 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...
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- Fandangos Evening News Raul Marroquin
In the 1970s, Marroquin created a great many remarkable, sociocritical performances. He caused quite a stir with his 'International Television Conference', for which he filled a large room with TV sets that represented delegates from various countries. Vi... - 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... - 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... - 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... - 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... - FOTOTOT (Exchange of Identity) Ulay
Performance documentation, Galerie Het Venster, Rotterdam, NL (September 5, 1975) This performance registration starts with an oral description of the upcoming performance, while Ulay, dressed up in a white uniform and with a white mask covering his fac... - FOTOTOT (Identity Analysis) Ulay
Video documentation of a performance in Galerie Beyer, Wuppertal, DE (March 5, 1976). This performance is the first in a series to which Ulay gives the name Fototot (Photo Death). In this performance, and in a number of others held at De Appel and Galerie...
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- Go Through the Motions Stuart Marshall
'To go through the motions of saying one thing and meaning another' is de tekst die in dit werk continue wordt herhaald met behulp van een loop. In beeld is de mond van de kunstenaar die in het begin de gehele zin meezegt, en later slechts flarden tekst... - 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... - Guru for Detroit Chris Burden
De kunstenaar zit naast Alexis Smith (die vaker op tapes van Burden voorkomt) op de bank en vertelt over de auto’s die hij heeft gehad. Bij iedere auto horen herinneringen, van auto-ongelukken tot gebeurtenissen uit de tijd dat hij een bepaalde auto bezat...
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- Hollandse week in De Appel Harrie de Kroon, Wally Stevens, Robert Malasch, Swagers, Nikolaus Urban, Wies Smals
The Dutch Week (January 4th-11th, 1976) at De Appel was the first event to pay large-scale attention to performance art by Dutch artists and artists living in the Netherlands. Fragments of the performances presented during this week are registered on this... - Hollandse week in De Appel - vervolg Harrie de Kroon, Wally Stevens, Robert Malasch, Swagers, Nikolaus Urban, Wies Smals
The Dutch Week (January 4th-11th, 1976) at De Appel was the first event to pay large-scale attention to performance art by Dutch artists and artists living in the Netherlands. Fragments of the performances presented during this week are registered on this...
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- If You Don't Blow Your Own Horn, Nobody Else Will Robin Winters
As the title page already indicates, this tape presents a ‘Portrait of the Artist’. The tape is a mixture of various forms of art and media, such as, performance, video art, sampling, photography and documentary. It is an ego-document in which the artist ... - Imitating an Action 1e fase Harrie de Kroon
Imitating an action is a performance in three phases. In Phase 1, the artist is inspecting his own face on a monitor placed out of sight, studying his various facial expressions. The viewer automatically links these expressions to certain emotions. De Kro... - Imitating an Action, 2e fase Harrie de Kroon
In Phase 2, there is an audience. De Kroon is watching the registration of Phase 1, and is trying to imitate it. The spectators do not immediately understand what is going on, and initially think that what they are seeing on the monitor is live. Phase 3 i... - 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... - An Indian in Holland Károly Halász
The tape opens with Transition: the first step to video. In this scene, Halász is walking slowly towards a television frame (empty casing without screen). Then he makes a footprint in paint on an empty sheet of paper that is lying on the floor, thus regis... - Ingehouden wil-feiten en vooruitgeschoven intuïtie, eigenlijk… Servie Janssen
'In the ground-floor area at Gallery De Appel in Amsterdam, I worked on the performance 'will, facts and intuition'. Starting with an empty space, I wanted to bring about, as openly as possible – from that situation – a confrontation with the audience. I ... - Ingehouden wil-feiten en vooruitgeschoven intuïtie, eigenlijk… Servie Janssen
'In the ground-floor area at Gallery De Appel in Amsterdam, I worked on the performance 'will, facts and intuition'. Starting with an empty space, I wanted to bring about, as openly as possible – from that situation – a confrontation with the audience. I ... - Installatie / Performance Buky Grinberg
For this performance, part of De Appel is covered in white plastic, creating a marked-off area that visitors can enter by means of ladders. The ladders are then removed, and the visitors sit down on stools in the middle of the area. Grinberg is sitting on... - 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',...
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- Joyful Anticipation Moniek Toebosch
For the two-day performance Joyful Anticipation, held on April 28th and 29th, 1978, Toebosch made her audience choose beforehand on which days they wanted to come. Potential visitors had to choose between two drawings (floor plans), and were only allowed ... - Just a Glimpse Stuart Marshall
Just a glimpse is een voor Marshall typerend videowerk aangezien er geëxperimenteerd wordt met de verschillende mogelijkheden en eigenschappen van het medium. Marshall laat zien hoe je een simpel beeld vervreemdend kunt laten werken door beeld en geluid n...
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- 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. ... - 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...
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- 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 ... - leader clip Talking Back To The Media
‘Talking back to the media’ is a concept designed by David Garcia and Raul Marroquin. The video is a comment on the reality created by the mass media. - 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... - 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...
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- 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... - The Marshall Klugman Show Mitchel Kriegman
The Marshall Klugman Show is a collection of comical sketches made by Mitchell Kriegman between 1975 and 1979. The pseudonym is probably chosen to make this work as American as possible. This kind of programme, the show, is an American phenomenon, the col... - Melodies Dale Franks
There are two men in the exhibition room. One of them is playing a harmonica, another one is murmuring and whistling along the melody. - 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... - Merlo Joan Jonas
In Merlo (the Italian word for blackbird), Joan Jonas focuses on the perception of image and sound from various distances. In the first scene, swathed in a black gown and veil, she clambers over the rocks in a chasm. The camera is above her. She is hummin... - Minutes of the Meeting Nan Hoover
The starting point of this performance on videotape was a citation from Freud: 'The unconscious system may therefore be compared to a large ante-room, in which the various mental excitations are crowding upon one another, like individual beings. Adjoining... - 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... - Morir d'amore Urs Lüthi
This video is a part of the exhibition “The desert is across the street” held at de Appel in 1975. “Morir d’amore” was demonstrated together with the video “Self-portrait”. In the beginning of the video the camera focuses on Luthi’s face. He flashes his ...