Kunstinstituut Melly Archive

Items

• Guy Brett on Kinetic art
• Still / A novel
  Documentary on 100 years of cinema by Chris Dercon for national TV broadcaster VPRO for the series Laat op de avond na een korte wandeling (1:37:38).
• Roossen, van Warmerdam, Dumas.
  Radio interview about the Venice Biennale exhibition of Maria Roossen, Marijke van Warmerdam and Marlene Dumas in the Dutch pavillion.
• Paul Thek
  Mr Bojangeles, a compilation of Paul Thek moving images by Chris Dercon. This small movie is the most requested item in the archive of Kunstinstituut Melly (14:27 min).
• Paul Thek
• Call it Sleep
  Jef Cornelis presents the exhibition Call it Sleep on VRT (7:20 min).
• Hal Foster in conversation with Allan Sekula. — Part 1
  A two-part conversation taking place in Berkely (US) and Rotterdam.
• Hal Foster in conversation with Allan Sekula. — Part 2
  A two-part conversation taking place in Berkely (US) and Rotterdam.
• Jef Geys
  Conversation between Chris Dercon and the families who particpated in Wat eten we vandaag? (What do we eat today?) (37:45 min).
• The Lectures — The Body is the present, debate
  A discussion with Stephan Balkenhol, Jean-François Chevrier, Chris Dercon, Craigie Horsfield, Ludger Gerdes, Martin Kreyssig and Jeff Wall.
• The Lectures — We Represent Ourselves to the World: Institutional Narrativity by Stephen Prina
  Stephan Prina contextualizes the exhibition No Rocks Allowed
• The Lectures — 30.8.92 on Walker Evans by Craigie Horsfield
  Craigie Horsfield lectures on the work of Walker Evans
• The Lectures — The Catalogue: An Ordered List of Works by Walter Nikkels
  Walter Nikkels contextualizes the work of Philip Akkerman
• Hélio Oiticica
  Hélio Oiticica and Ho and Parangola fragments, Lygia Clark and Oiticica, Helio Mangueira Oiticica by Ivan Cardosa, Montage Eric van Dongen, compiled by Chris Dercon (total 10:11 min).
• The Lectures — I Aspire to the Great Labyrinth, debate
  A discussion with Guy Brett, Catherine David, Rodrigo Naves and Sonia Salzstein- Goldberg on Helio Oiticica.
• The Lectures — Geographics of Identity by Alexandre Melo
  Works by two different artists, the American painter Michael Byron and the Portuguese painter Julião Sarmento, were confronted. The Portuguese sociologist and art critic Alexandre Melo dealt with the relevance and non-relevance of the work outside the so-called ‘art centers’. Works by two different artists, the American painter Michael Byron and the Portuguese painter Julião Sarmento, were confronted.
• The Lectures — Art and Politics, A Political Economy of Happiness II by Remo Guidieri
  During Facts and Rumours, an exhibition curated by the Dutch artist Henk Visch, and Voorwerk 2, the Franco-Italian ethnologist Remo Guidieri presented a philosophical interpretation of the marriage between the creative process of art and the professionalization of the art
• The Lectures — The Avant-Garde, Sublimation and the Patriarchy by John Miller
  In conjunction with the exhibition of Jessica Stockholder and Saint Clair Cemin, the American art critic and artist John Miller conveyed his view on the history of assemblage.
• The Lectures — Big Bad Public Sculptures, debate
  The German artist Hermann Pitz, the curators Marianne Brouwer and Kasper Kӧnig and the artist Ludger Gerdes discussed the future of public sculptures before an enormous maquette for the new Rotterdam.
• John Ahearn and Rigoberto Torres, South Bronx Hall Of Fame
  Short documentary by the Contemporary Art Museum Houston and HITN75 (total 22:51min).
• The Lectures — GOn Deathmasks: What truths and lies appear in the countenance of the dead in portrait, print or casting? by Bart Verschaffel
  In conjunction with the exhibition South Bronx Hall of Fame by the Americans John Ahearn and Rigoberto Torres, which had presented an overview of their portrait-sculptures of neighbours and friends in the South Bronx, New York.
• The Lectures — The crisis of the image by Raymond Bellour
  Raymond Bellour lectures on the relationship between cinema and painting, on the occasion of the exhibition Cézanne.
• The Lectures — Traditions and Counter-traditions in Vancouver Art: A Deeper Background for Ken Lum’s Work by Jeff Wall
  Jeff wall contextualizes the work of Ken Lum.
• The Lectures — Maintain a Distance by Jean-François Chevrier
  Jean-François Chevrier talks about the exhibition De Afstand (Distance) which presented “distant,” documentary photography by eight artists.
• The Lectures — Part 2 — Riddles of the Model by Francesco Pellizzi
  Francesco Pellizzi talks about the work of Julio Galan and Guillermo Kuitca, two Latin American artists.