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The secret in the work of Jef Cornelis
30 October 2008
Lecture by Koen Brams in the framework of Video out of joint, at Film-Plateau, Paddenhoek 3, Ghent, Thursday 30 October 2008, 19.00-22.00 h.
In his lecture, Koen Brams (director Jan van Eyck Academie) will focus on the films about fine art that Cornelis made in 1971: a short film on Daniel Buren, in connection with his exhibition at the Wide White Space Gallery in Antwerp in May 1971 and the film on pioneering exhibition Sonsbeek buiten de perken, in August 1971. In these films Cornelis does not shy away from controversy – on het contrary, he goes out of his way to find it. Numerous incidents – between artists, between artists and exhibition makers, et cetera - are documented. In his lecture, Koen Brams draws attention to the way Cornelis shows these conflicts – and how he stages conflicts himself.
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http://www.film-plateau.ugent.be/default.aspx?alias=prog_video2
On Container: the (public) place of the intellectual in the Flanders of 1989 & the archaeology of (post-)modernity
30 October 2008
Lecture by Koen Brams & Dirk Pültau in the framework of Video out of joint, at Film-Plateau, Paddenhoek 3, Ghent, Thursday 30 October 2008, 19.00-22.00 h.
In 1989 Jef Cornelis made the infamous programme Container. In Container, ten episodes of which were shown on national television, three or four intellectuals would discuss topics which, one way or another, were all concerned with 'the archaeology of modernity'. Sitting in a brand-new 'Container', designed by Beel, they would talk for an hour about subjects like 'the department store', 'Ernest Claes', 'theatricality' or 'the figure of Don Juan'. The TV format of the programme did not concern them in the least. The programme got scathing reviews; it was no coincidence that it was broadcast in the same year that the commercial TV channel VTM was founded. Koen Brams (director Jan van Eyck Academie) and Dirk Pültau (editor-in-chief De Witte Raaf) will discuss Container as a case study to highlight the (public) position of the intellectual in Flanders. Next to that, they will talk about the (post-)modern topics under discussion in Container.
More info:
http://www.film-plateau.ugent.be/default.aspx?alias=prog_video2