Found 168 works in collection "De Appel"
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- Documentatie over Jeroen Henneman Jeroen Henneman
The carefree thought of Jeroen Henneman is an episode from the ‘Beeldspraak’ (Metaphor) series, broadcast by NOS TV on February 28th, 1978. This documentary begins with Henneman expressing his doubts about this kind of art programme. In a fictitious telep... - 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 '... - 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... - Portret van Robbie Joshua Janssen
Dit videowerk van Joshua Janssen bestaat uit twee over elkaar gelegde videobeelden van een jongen die zich opmaakt. - Rumble Maarten van der Ploeg
Excerpt from P.A.R.K 4DTV presenteert Rumblepark, televisiekunst van Maarten Ploeg uit de periode 1990-2004>P.A.R.K 4DTV presenteert televisiekunst van Maarten Ploeg uit de periode 1990-2004 (?)
1973
- 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... - 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 ...
1974
- -No Title- Jannis Kounellis
'I think my greatest aspiration (...) is to become a needle to sew everything up, but first to push my way in there, and sew all this history up again. I don’t want to delve into the past for archaeological pleasure (...) but because the past has a realit... - The 2nd Routine Allan Kaprow
The opening title remarks of Allan Kaprow's video 'The 2nd Routine' preface the viewer as to the subjectively illustrated viewpoint of this edit over one of pure documentation. The sequence of eight exercises that follows forms part of that 'blurring of a... - The 3rd Routine Allan Kaprow
Allan Kaprow's Activities and his video works from the 1970s can be placed somewhere between conceptual art, performance art, and the social sciences. In The 3rd Routine, two people, in turn, carry out a series of actions. On the screen, the neutrally for... - 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. Produced by Palestine at Art/Tapes/22 in Florence, Italy, these wo... - Break Willoughby Sharp
A house is filmed from the bushes. The camera slowly approaches the building, from which screams come. A man's voice screams 'break, break, break, gonna break here, gotta break from here, gonna break out of here, gotta get out of here'. The camera enters ... - 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... - 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... - 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... - A Documentation of Bradford, Working Life Darcy Lange
In 1972 while living in England Darcy Lange began videotaping and filming under the general theme of “people at work” in factories, mines, and schools, developing a body work during the 1970s solely devoted to the documentation of labour. In 1974, Lange c... - 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. - 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... - 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... - 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... - 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 ... - 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... - 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... - Self Portrait Urs Lüthi
This video is a part of the exhibition “The desert is across the street” held at de Appel in 1975. “Self-portrait” was demonstrated together with the video “Morir d’amore”. The screen is vertically divided in two parts. In the left half of the screen a c... - 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... - Suicide Sutra Les Levine
In this tape by Levine, John Giorno (American sound poet, actor in Andy Warhol’s Sleep) plays the lead. He repeats the texts spoken by Levine. The repetition in the text itself, and the voices talking over and repeating each other, turn the text into a wh... - Then Allan Kaprow
Using simple techniques, Kaprow shows a few conceptual, minimal processes. The three actions which he performs cover a certain space of time, and eventually dissolve into a moment: Then. In the first part, a man is sucking an ice cube. The frame, which o... - 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-... - 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...
1975
- 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... - Animation Stuart Marshall
This work starts with a shot of a picture tube with a still of a child on a slide. The child sits at the top of the slide, on the border between stillness and movement. The image is slowed down to frame by frame, making it look like the person is actually... - 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... - 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... - 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... - 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... - Go Through the Motions Stuart Marshall
“An extreme close-up of a mouth is used to examine speech patterning, perception of mime, vocal cavity resonation and the electronic fracturing of speech. Mouth Works is composed by three works: Going Through the Motions, Arcanum and Mouth Room.” Video ... - 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',... - Just a Glimpse Stuart Marshall
Just a glimpse is a typical video work for Marshall, as it experiments with the different possibilities and properties of the medium. Marshall shows how you can make a simple image have an alienating effect by not allowing image and sound to correspond wi... - 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... - 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... - 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... - 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 ... - 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...
