‘An angle of 180 degrees is a straight line or half a circle’ (2007) by Aldo Giannotti
The artist’s mother hanging upside-down.
Tag Archives: performance
Christoph Büchel
Christoph Büchel, ‘Minus’ (2002)
A punk-concert was held inside a room at the Kunstverein Hannover. Immediately after the show, the entire room was frozen.
Tomo Savic-Gecan
Untitled (2011) by Tomo Savic-Gecan
The room shown in the movie is one out of four rooms for the installation ‘untitled’ (2011). Savic-Gecan made this installation for the Witte de With, Rotterdam (NL) exhibition Melanchotopia. The text on the wall explains: “Every change in temperature in the city of Rotterdam causes one of the spaces in Witte de With to open and close.”
Derek Brunen
‘Plot’ (2007) by Derek Brunen
Brunen bought a plot of land in a cemetary and dug his own grave there as a performance. The video’s original running time is 6 hrs. 15 mins.
‘Plot (From Above)’ 2007
‘Plot (Tombstone)’ (2008)
Maurice Meewisse
Maurice Meewisse, ‘The woodworks’ (2010)
Meewisse travelled to the woods in the most eastern part of the Netherlands, where he chopped down a lot of trees. The wood harvested in the forest was taken home to produce a variety of construction materials.
Ryan Thompson
‘Tree fell site’ (2007-2087), by Department of natural history (Ryan Thompson)
Documentary footage of a tree felling is slowed down to mirror the life span of the tree, 80 years. The video will play once through, thus ending in the year 2087.
‘Tree Fell Site (Stump)’, pigment print (2007)
Mark Leckey
Mark Leckey‘s ‘GreenScreenRefrigerator’ (2010)
A black Samsung Bottom Freezer Refrigerator was filmed live in front of an audience at Gavin Brown’s Enterprise. The Fridge stood on a green screen infinity cyc while Leckey coaxed it into revealing its thoughts and actions.
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