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La Convergence des arts 4
La seconde forme de musicalisme n’est plus définie comme la « correspondance des arts » mais comme l’« expérimentation des objets et des environnements sonores ». À l’encontre de Guillaume Apollinaire qui voit dans la peinture une forme pure, Marcel Duchamp...
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1962 : chronologie performance
- AN ANTHOLOGY, NYC, The Living Theatre, avec George Brecht, Claus Bremer, Earle Brown, Joseph Byrd, John Cage, Henry Flynt, Dick Higgins, Toshi Ichiyanagi, Terry Jennings, Walter de Maria, Yoko Ono. - AN ANTHOLOGY II. NYC, The Living Theatre, avec Ray...
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1966 : chronologie performance
1966 - BEUYS Joseph, Eurasia, 1966. Copenhague. (fluxus). - BOYLE Mark, Bodily Fluids, 1966. - BOYLE Mark, Institute of Contemporary Archeology’s Annual dig in Sheperd’s Bush, 1966. Londres. - CHIARI Giuseppe, Doing Something with One’s Body and the Wall,...
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1963 : chronologie performance
- ARDEN John, Festival of Anarchy. 1963. Kirkbymoorside. Yorkshire. - BROUWN Stanley, This Way Brouwn. 1963. Amsterdam. - FLYNT Henry & CONRAD Tony, Démonstration (grève devant le MOMA). 27/02/1963 (fluxus). - FLYNT Henry, From Culture to Veramusement,...
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Wall-Floor Positions @ Bruce Nauman. 1968
WALL-FLOOR POSITIONS 1968, 60 min, b&w, sound In this videotape Nauman assumes a set of positions in relation to a wall and floor similar to those he had executed for an untitled 1965 performance, which he described as "standing with my back to the wall...
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Bye Bye Kipling @ Nam June Paik. 1986
BYE BYE KIPLING 1986, 30:32 min, color, sound This ambitious live satellite link-up of Japan, Korea and the United States features interviews with Keith Haring and architect Arata Isozaki, and performances and works by Philip Glass and the Kodo Drummers,...
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Palm Trees On The Moon @ Bill Viola. 1977
PALM TREES ON THE MOON, 1977 1977, 26:06 min, color, sound In Palm Trees on the Moon, the second of two tapes made in the Solomon Islands, Viola presents a stream-of-consciousness flow of sound and image as a metaphor for the paradoxes of a culture embedded...
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Threshold @ Bill Viola. 1992
Threshold , 1992 Video/sound installation Edition 2: Collection of the artist; courtesy Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London. Current news scrolls across an electronic display sign with up-to-date reports on the daily events of the world. The illuminated text...
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I Do Not Know What It Is I Am Like @ Bill Viola. 1986
I DO NOT KNOW WHAT IT IS I AM LIKE, 1986 Tout commence un jour dans les eaux indifférenciées où les éléments organiques prennent vie, où le monde se baigne, se regarde et se noie. Cette bande poursuit l'éternelle réflexion de Bill Viola sur la perception...
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Déserts @ Bill Viola. 1994
DÉSERTS, 1994 1994, 26 min, color, sound Déserts was created to accompany a live performance of the work of avant-garde composer Edgard Varèse (1885-1965). The Ensemble Modern, a contemporary music group based in Frankfurt, commissioned Viola to create...
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Théâtralité (Henry Sayre)
Henry Sayre : « It has stood against the purist modernism championed by the likes Greenberg, Fried, and Rose, and it has, over the last several decades, become associated with postmodernism proper. Says Fried in 1982 : « In my ‘art and objecthood’ I argue...
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The Passing @ Bill Viola.1991
THE PASSING, 1991 Quatre ans marqués d'événements tant personnels qu'universels amèneront Bill Viola à réaliser cette bande vidéo de 54 minutes en noir et blanc. La naissance de son fils, la mort de sa mère, deux événements se situant aux extrémités de...
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Slowly Turning Narrative @ Bill Viola. 1992
Slowly Turning Narrative, 1992 Video/sound installation Edition 2: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Modern and Contemporary Art Council Fund. A large rotating screen shows a man's face in black-and-white on one side and a series of color images on the...
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Selected Works @ Woody Vasulka. 1973-74
1973-74, 29:01 min, color, sound Vocabulary 1973, 4:17 min, color, sound The Matter 1974, 3:56 min, color, sound C-Trend 1974, 9:03 min, color, sound Explanation 1974, 11:45 min, color, sound This program of early works includes didactic explanations...
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He Weeps For You @ Bill Viola. 1976
Video/sound installation Edition 2: Collection of Pamela and Richard Kramlich; courtesy Thea Westreich Art Advisory Services. A drop of water emerging from a small brass valve is magnified by a video camera and projected on a large screen. The close-up...
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A So Desu Ka @ Steina Vasulka. 1994
A So Desu Ka 1994, 9:40 min, color, sound In this piece, Steina, a pioneer of electronic signal manipulation, applies digital technology to alter our sense of video space and time. Through computer effects, a montage of seemingly arbitrary shots of Japanese...
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The Sleepers @ Bill Viola. 1992
THE SLEEPERS, 1992 The Sleepers, 1992 Video installation Edition 1: Musée d’Art Contemporain, Montreal. Seven metal barrels are filled to the brim with water. They each contain a black-and-white video monitor positioned on the bottom. Each monitor shows...
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Passage @ Bill Viola. 1987
PASSAGE, 1987 Video/sound installation Edition 1: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Accessions Committee Fund: gift of Mr. and Mrs. Donald G. Fisher, Susan and Robert Green, Pamela and Richard Kramlich, and Mr. and Mrs. Brooks Walker, Jr. A long narrow...
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The West @ Steina Vasulka. 1998
THE WEST, 1998 1998, 28:25 min, color, sound Steina's camera turns to the starkly beautiful American Southwest, tracing the contours of a landscape at once devoid of people and haunted by their presence: empty, maze-like ruins of a vanished Native American...
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Reverse Television @ Bill Viola. 1984
REVERSE TELEVISION, 1983-1984 Cette bande est la trace d'un projet qui avait pour objectif d'interrompre la continuité du flux indifférencié de l'image télévisuel, afin de donner la possibilité au spectateur de réfléchir à sa propre position, face à l'écran....
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Sketches @ Steina & Woody Vasulka. 1970
SKETCHES, 1970, 24:23 min, b&w, sound Red Roses 1970, b&w Let it be 1970, b&w The Kiss 1970, b&w Charles' Story 1970, b&w Alfons 1970, b&w Thierry 1970, b&w Gundance 1970, b&w The Vasulkas capture the countercultural spirit of the era in a series of performances...
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The Greetings @ Bill Viola. 1995
THE GREETING, 1995 The Greeting, 1995 Video/sound installation Artist's Proof 2: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Partial and promised gift of an anonymous donor P.4.95. A large projection screen mounted to the wall shows two women engaged in...
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Memory Surfaces and Mental Prayers @ Bill Viola. 1977
MEMORY SURFACES AND MENTAL PRAYERS, 1977, 29 min, color, sound The Wheel of Becoming 1977, 7:40 min, color, sound The Morning After the Night of Power 1977, 10:44 min, color, sound Sweet Light 1977, 9:08 min, color, sound Memory Surfaces and Mental Prayers...
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Analogue Assemblage @ Nam June Paik. 2000
ANALOGUE ASSEMBLAGE 2000, 2:08 min, color, sound Drawing from Paik's 1970's experiments with video synthesizers, Analogue Assemblage employs current digital technology to create a multilayered montage that references both the old and the new. The eerie...
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TV-Cubisme Liège @ Wolf Vostell
TV-CUBISME LIÈGE Le sujet de cette vidéo est une femme filmée de profil dont les lèvres sont maquillées en rouge, et qui a devant son visage tantôt un bloc de béton gris, tantôt deux. La caméra est constamment en mouvement. L'image de cette femme est...