JEF CORNELIS

TV works

  1. Sunday 19 April 2009, 14.00
    The World Question Center Questioned
    — lecture by Koen Brams
    — SMART Project Space, Amsterdam, NL

    In the context of the exhibition Endless Installation: A Ghost Story for Adults, organised by Public Space With A Roof and held at SMART Project Space in Amsterdam, Koen Brams will give the lecture The World Question Center Questioned, on Sunday 19 April. The lecture addresses two films made by Jef Cornelis in 1969: James Lee Byars: een Amerikaans kunstenaar and The World Question Center. The first film is a fairly typical documentary on the occasion of Byars’ exhibition at the Antwerp Wide White Space Gallery (18 April to 7 May 1969) – his first show on the European mainland. The World Question Center is without a doubt one of the most curious programmes made by Cornelis: it is the live broadcast of a performance that took place in a studio of the Belgian public broadcasting corporation in Brussels. During this performance, entirely led by the American artist James Lee Byars, more than twenty personalities – artists (like Joseph Beuys and Marcel Broodthaers), scientists and media figures – were given the opportunity to ask what they considered the most relevant question. Some questions were posed, no answers given. In his lecture, Koen Brams will elaborate on how The World Question Center came into being and situate the two films within the oeuvre of Jef Cornelis and of James Lee Byars.
  2. 23/05/07
    Dirk Pültau/Bart Verschaffel - Het raadsel van de sfinx (1983)
  3. 20/05/07
    Koen Brams - Daniel Buren (1971)
  4. 17/03/07
    Koen Brams - Daniel Buren (1971)
  5. 18/09/06
    Andrea Phillips - Openbaar bad in Münster (1987)
  6. 19/05/06
    Wouter Davidts/Kim Paice - Daniel Buren in Cornelis' films
  7. 18/04/06
    Koen Brams - De straat (1972)
  8. 08/12/05
    Koen Brams/Dirk Pültau - De straat (1972) & Landschap van kerken (1989)
  9. 11/07/05
    Dirk Pültau/Helmut Draxler - Landschap van kerken (1989) & Little Sparta. Et in Arcadia Ego (1987)
  10. 23/02/05
    Jack Post/Stephan Geene - IJsbreker (1983-1984)
  11. 13/12/04
    Stephan Geene - Marcel Broodthaers in Cornelis' films
  12. 06/12/04
    Eric de Bruyn - Sonsbeek buiten de perken (1971)
  13. 29/11/04
    Bart Verschaffel/Geert Bekaert - OMA/Rem Koolhaas (1985)
  14. 22/11/04
    Steven Jacobs - Documenta 4 (1968) & Documenta 5 (1972)
  15. 01/11/04
    Chris Dercon/Rudi Laermans - Voyage à Paris (1993) & Call it sleep (1995)
  16. 24/10/04
    Wouter Davidts - Daniel Buren in Cornelis' films
  17. 18/10/04
    Arjen Mulder - Container (1989)
  18. 27/09/04
    Jannah Loontjes - Na Alle Vlees (1981)
  19. 20/09/04
    Marc Holthof - Jan Vercruysse (1989) & The Music Box (1994)
  20. 13/09/04
    Daniël Biltereyst - Container (1989)
  21. 06/09/04
    Lieven De Cauter - Landschap van kerken (1989)
  22. 11/06/04
    Christian Philip Müller - Openbaar bad in Münster (1987)
  23. 26/04/04
    Bart Verschaffel - Ge kent de weg en de taal (1976) & Brussel, scherven van geluk (1995)
  24. 19/04/04
    Dirk Lauwaert - Abdij van Park Heverlee (1964)

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