Solutions to boredom

Argos

Argos, a Brussels based centre for art and media, is the main institution promoting the audiovisual arts – and artists – in Belgium. Created in 1989, Argos has developed from a distributor of artists' video and film into a broader art centre incorporating also functions as exhibitions, screenings and events, production, conservation and preservation, publishing and the development of a public media library. As an interdisciplinary centre for art and audiovisual media the goal of Argos is to create a production, presentation, distribution, and preservation platform for contemporary Belgian and international audiovisual and visual arts, and more generally all forms of artistic expression moving on the crossing point with the audiovisual media. Anke Buxmann and Maria Palacios Cruz composed a video programme both representative of the Argos distribution catalogue – composed of Belgian as well as international artists - as well as of the Belgian humorous surrealistic tradition. From Nyst’s L’Objet, at the very beginning of the Belgian video art tradition, to a contemporary master of the absurd like Messieurs Delmotte, the videos in this programme appear as joyful and playful solutions to a day of boredom in the artist’s life.
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A presentation of the Argos collection, curators: Anke Buxmann, María P. Cruz

Jacques-Louis Nyst
A pioneer when it comes to working with video in Belgium, Jacques-Louis Nyst (BE, 1942-1996) produced a considerable body of work in this domain, covering a period of over thirty years.
L’Objet
11:00, 1974, B/W, Sound

Steve Reinke
Inspired by Cage's words, Steve Reinke (CA, 1963) records a 'scientific' experience.
Squeezin sorrow from an ashtray
05:45, 1997, Color, Sound

Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby
In The Fine Arts Emily Vey Duke (CA, 1972) and Cooper Battersby (CA, 1971) mock their own lack of inspiration: a woman confesses that she's speaking French in the nude because she has no good ideas but admits that her solution is unoriginal.
The Fine Arts
03:38, 2002, Color, Sound

Haral Thys, Jos de Gruyter
The Bucket begins with a very trivial situation, namely a man and a woman decide to repaint their living room...
The Bucket ends with the murder of the man and woman by the mysterious bird-men.
The Bucket
18:17, 2001, Color, Sound

Messieurs Delmotte
The work of Messieurs Delmotte (BE, 1967) is situated somewhere between reality and imagination, somewhere between genius and dilettantism. In Delmotte's opinion, society is irrational and possesses insufficient sense of fairness and common sense to dismantle the mechanisms of social conditioning that determine our existence. Delmotte is distinguished by his dress code and facial appearance. The physical commitment of his own body as an instrument of unruliness plays a cardinal role.
Des faits et des gestes 17:22, 2000, Color, Sound

Michel François
Michel François (BE, 1956) lives and works in Brussels. He combines industrial and natural objects, photography and installations. In his work he conceives his personal perception on reality, he analyses everyday images and actions, tracing for the unexpected and the beauty of the familiar.
L’arpenteur
00:31,1993, Color, Sound

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