Job Koelewijn, ‘The world is my oyster’ (1998)
At the Fons Welters gallery in Amsterdam, Koelewijn removed a soccer goal-sized part of the back wall, which created a view into the neighboring gardens.
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Joe Mckay
Joe Mckay, ‘Sunset Solitaire’
In this performance/video/game Mckay wrote a program and built custom hardware that allowed him to mix the sunset live. He then projected with a video projector, from his computer onto a garage in a field behind his studio. As the sun set behind the building he attempted to match the color of the sunset with the projector.
(Also, I want to share this with you: http://homepage.mac.com/joester5/art/gmail.html. A website, by Mckay, on how to remove targeted ads in Gmail.)
Michel de Broin
‘Reparations’ (2004) by Michel de Broin. See the video here.
Empty plastic bottles found by chance on the streets of Paris are transformed into rockets. A bicycle pump is used to compress a mixture of water and air inside the bottle until the pressure is built up high enough to fire it into the sky.
Ieke Trinks
Ieke Trinks, ‘Act I’ (2007)
A performance that took place during a party. The performer was dressed somewhat clown-like and was a member of the audience. The performer sat, walked around, made small-talk, observed, drank, attempted to snatch peanuts and smokes. Afterwards a report of the performer’s experience was made. This report, combined with pictures of the particular evening and a discreet male voice-over, were put together into a video.
Barbara Visser
‘Lecture with actress’ (1997)
For a discussion night on the topic of reality and fiction, the artist was invited to talk about her practice. Instead, Visser employed a tall blond actress with no previous knowledge of her work, to do the lecture instead, equipped with an invisible earpiece, repeating – almost in slow motion – the words prompted to her by the artist.
‘Lecture on lecture with actress’ (2004)
[…] a different actress giving a lecture, again as Barbara Visser, on the first performance, illustrating her talk with video footage. Self (re)presentation becomes entangled in conceptual strategies that result in carefully choreographed confusion. (text by Sven Lütticken)
‘Last lecture’ (2007), by Barbara Visser
In this last episode a full circle is made. In this performance, the two previous videos projected, and the artist, seen only in the form of a silhouette behind the screen, is dubbing the voice of the second actress, who in her lecture, is recalling the first event.
